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Visual literacy
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Visual literacy is the set of skills involved in the interpretation and criticism of images. The concept of visual literacy is also the ability to create and use images to communicate. Visual literacy is a field of study in academia, drawing on art history and criticism, psychology, semiotics, philosophy, information design and graphic design. It is also a goal of education paralleling linguistic literacy. The basic skills of visual literacy include the vocabulary of concepts necessary for understanding and discussing images and visual symbols. Visual literacy can also include rhetorical analysis of the ways different media convey their arguments or messages visually.
Visual literacy is not limited to modern mass media and new technologies. Animal drawings in ancient caves, such as the one in Lascaux, France, can be seen as early forms of visual literacy.
Related terms include information design, information graphics, educational animation, chartjunk, art history, art criticism, visual rhetoric.
Significant authors in visual literacy include Edward Tufte and others.
- What is visual literacy? from the International Visual Literacy Association
- Journal of Visual Literacy
- Visual Literacy from 21st Century Literacies