Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen

Book Overview

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.

Features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415672570
• ISBN13: 9780415672573
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A useful tool

This is an interesting, engaging entry point into the analysis of visuals as communicative, or rhetorical, devices. Even ten years later, much of Kress and van Leeuwen's book is still relevant and easily extrapolated into the digital media. It provides, as a colleague of mine said, a useful toolbox for any critic.