Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory

This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our world through text, rather than images.

Ricardo Lopez-Leon, PhD, is a lead researcher-lecturer at the University of Aguascalientes at the Design Sciences Center in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Dana Statton Thompson, MLIS, MA, MFA, is the assistant dean of libraries and a research and instruction librarian at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, USA.

Introduction 1. Rudolf Arnheim: The Power of the Image 2. Vilém Flusser: Play/Read/Write/See 3. The Conspiracy of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Relevance for Visual Literacy Today 4. Fontcuberta and Postphotography: unveiling the border between fiction and reality 5. Literacy Foundations in June King McFee's Art Education Philosophy 6. Visual Literacy Development through Picturebooks: The Contributions of John Warren Stewig 7. Abigail Housen: Visual Thinking from Museums to the Classroom 8. Unleashing Perception: Exploring Michael Matyushin's Expanded Vision 9. Thinking in pictures: Temple Grandin's contribution to Visual Literacy 10. David Howes: Pioneer of Sensory Studies 11. Nada Shabout: The Challenge of Visual Literacy in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art