Description:

This text provides an engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, communicate, play, and learn. Using vivid examples and accessible language, the book explains the meanings of images from fine art, popular film and television, advertising, digital media, and images from the sciences, law, and medicine.

Readership : Suitable for courses in visual culture, design, communication, media studies, and art history.