Understanding pictures
Lopes, Dominic1996
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This book examines the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers needs to have to understand pictures. It addresses how pictures reflect their cultural and historical contexts and yet be understood outside those contexts and explains how pictures are capable of conveying information other media cannot.
Main title:
Understanding pictures / Dominic Lopes.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996.
Collation:
240p. : ill. ; 23cm.
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Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 1992, originally presented under the title: Pictures as perceptual symbols.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780198240976 ( )
Dewey class:
701.17
Language:
English
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BRN:
618590