Reading Images - The Grammar of Visual Design (Hardcover, 3rd edition)

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning. Features of this fully updated third edition include: new material on diagrams and data visualization a new approach to the theory of 'modality' a discussion of how images and their uses have changed since the first edition examples from a wide range of digital media including websites, social media, I-phone interfaces and computer games ideas on the future of visual communication. Reading Images presents a detailed outline of the 'grammar' of visual design and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images in their contemporary multimodal settings. A must for students and scholars of communication, linguistics, design studies, media studies and the arts.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	Gunther Kress • Theo Van Leeuwen
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	292
Edition:	3rd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-67256-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology
LSN:	0-415-67256-2
Barcode:	9780415672566

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