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Seeing is believing. Or is it?: visual literacy in art & design education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

Peter Wright
Peter Wright*
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in Design, Culture and Context. Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Visual forms of communication are dominant in the digital era. As the visual has increased in influence throughout contemporary culture, art & design slide collections, which would have traditionally helped users make sense of the visual world, have begun to rapidly disappear. How are students of art & design (and beyond) engaging with this visual proliferation now they can no longer rely on the support of the institutional slide collections and their expert staff?

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 32 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2016 

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5. Ibid., p. 4.