Course Description
How do you read images with(in) books? Can images persuade, seduce, or even lead the narrative astray? Drawing from the works on text and image from Visual Culture scholars, this interdisciplinary course focuses on visual textuality—the ‘book’ as a visible object of cultural consumption and production in the West and Mediterranean. This class reinforces the fact that the visual textuality of Visual Studies entails a complex study of the book and its ‘images’. Students will consider how the ‘text and image’ relationship alter and influence different acts of reading. In addition, students will undertake the task of understanding and analyzing this multifaceted art form by examining illuminated manuscripts, illustrated texts, and graphic narratives.
