visual literacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvisualandliteracy
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visual
adjective
uk/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/us/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl/
relating ...
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literacy
noun[U]
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.ə.si/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.si/
the ability to read ...
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(Definition ofvisualandliteracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvisual literacy
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The need for pre-literacy skills is stressed, echoing comments in other chapters regardingvisualliteracy.
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Yet art places its own demands on historians, demanding they acquirevisualliteracyto read the ideas, attitudes, emotions and concepts embedded in objects.
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Equally, the term may be borrowed fromvisualliteracyto mean 'sharp' in the sense of 'in focus'.
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This is the generation that has an enormousvisualliteracywith an instantaneous instinct for anything that they regard as at all dull, stuffy, old-fashioned.
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Some relational presentation concepts have close parallels within thevisualliteracyand media literacy movements.
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An archetype, capable of endless visual regeneration, which depending on your opinion, either helps tell the story of 20th centuryvisualliteracyor kitsch banality.
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She wanted to encourage a sense of patronage andvisualliteracyfor all, including those not thinking of following an artistic career.
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Visualliteracyalso includes the ability to understand visual forms of communication such as body language, pictures, maps, and video.
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Hence, even though the namevisualliteracyitself as a label dates to the 1960s, the concept of reading signs and symbols is prehistoric.
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Visualliteracyis not limited to modern mass media and new technologies.
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In keeping with its mission to promotevisualliteracy, the viz. blog presents a daily community forum for discussing images in the digital age.
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Visual rhetoric generally falls under a group of terms, which all encompassvisualliteracy.
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Under the general rubric ofvisualliteracy, his coursework included film history, media studies, and theory and aesthetics.
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Our goal is to enhance the visitor's understanding of art as an enduring human endeavor and to promotevisualliteracyfor all patrons.
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