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Subjects: Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual

What is Visual Literacy?

Visual Literacy
is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively
find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media.

ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Visual Literacy Research Books

Visual Methodologies: an introduction to researching with visual materials
Call Number: P93.5 .R67 2012
How to deal with the visual from diverse approaches such as content analysis, semiotics, psychoanalysis and discourse analysis, all explained carefully, using examples, in terms of the stages of a research project.
Visual Literacy
Call Number: N7476 .T83 2002
How to write about art from a variety of scholarly and rhetorical perspectives.
Practices of Looking: an introduction to visual culture
Call Number: HM500 .S78 2001
An overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn.

Visual Literacy Image Analysis

How Do You Look?
Learn what questions to ask when analyzing different types of artwork with the interactive tool created by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Reading the Pictures
Reading the Pictures is a web-based, non-profit educational and publishing organization dedicated to visual culture, visual literacy and media literacy through the analysis of news, documentary and social media images.