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Reading images : the grammar of visual design / Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 291 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415319140:
  • 9780415319157:
  • 9780203619728:
  • 0415319145 (hbk)
  • 9780415319140 (hbk)
  • 0415319153 (pbk.)
  • 9780415319157 (pbk.)
  • 0203619722 (e-book)
  • 9780203619728 (e-book)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.6
LOC classification:
  • .K64 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social constructs -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Modality: designing models of reality -- The meaning of composition -- Materiality and meaning -- The third dimension -- Colourful thoughts (a postscript).
Review: "Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 70201
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 70202
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 741.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 70203

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication -- Narrative representations: designing social action -- Conceptual representations: designing social constructs -- Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer -- Modality: designing models of reality -- The meaning of composition -- Materiality and meaning -- The third dimension -- Colourful thoughts (a postscript).

"Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design - colour, perspective, framing and composition - and provides the reader with an invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images, which makes it a must for anyone interested in communication, the media and the arts."--BOOK JACKET.

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