The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display

by Brett Ommen

In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal experience of aesthetics and individual identity. In space, viewers engage in the negotiation of meaning and collective belonging. Graphic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817319182
• ISBN13: 9780817319182
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"