Case Studies from Across the Pond, by Victoria Brown (University of Oxford)

• 1. Using Visual Literacy in Learning and Teaching Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator Visual Resources Centre, History of Art Department Case studies from across the pond

2. Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak. But there is also another way in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. John Berger, Ways of Seeing Digital literacy via the visual 3. Visual literacy and the VRA 4. Amy Herman and The Art of Perception Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 1828), The Dead Thrush Duane Hanson, Traveller 5. Amy Herman and The Art of Perception 6. Amy Herman and The Art of Perception Double - Doors II (A + B) 200607 Rachel Whiteread, British, born in 1963 British 7. Amy Herman and The Art of Perception Amy Herman video in YouTube 8. Philip Yenawine and Visual Thinking Strategies 9. Philip Yenawine and Visual Thinking Strategies 10. Philip Yenawine and Visual Thinking Strategies Philip Yenawine, VTS video 11. Carolyn Caizzi, Images Unleashed Carolyn Caizzi Instructional Technologist Visual Resources Collection Yale University Library [email protected] 12. Virginia Allison, Images Unleashed 13. Visual Literacy Case Studies @ VRA 30 14. To summarise.. 15. My contact details Email: [email protected] Blog/website: http://tinyurl.com/6zrwp6m Twitter: #oxfordarthist LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/victoria- brown/27/967/a4b/ 16. Sources and references VRA (Visual Resources Association: www.vraweb.org Bridgeman Education: www.bridgemaneducation.com UCIs Visual Literacy Guide: libguides.lib.uci.edu/visual_literacy The Art of Perception: aop.artfulperception.com/ ARTstor: www.artstor.org Visual Thinking Strategies: www.vtshome.org/ Philip Yenawine conducts a VTS discussion in Amsterdam, 2012: vimeo.com/51146289 Carolyn Caizzis Images Unleashed on SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/VisResAssoc/2-caizzi Virginia Allisons Images Unleashed on SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/VisResAssoc/1-allison Stephanie Beenes Visual Literacy Case Study: www.slideshare.net/VisResAssoc/vra-2012-visual-literacy-case- studies-adventures-in-seeing Flickr & Wikimedia Commons: www.flickr.com & www.commons.wikimedia.org ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for H E: www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency 17. John Berger Steve Bowbrick, CC-BY, flic.kr/p/9PUtXA Edward Hopper, Automat, 1927, Des Moines Art Center, Image courtesy of the Des Moines Art Center, Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines. Image credits and sources Paintings from the tomb of Petosiris at Muzawaka (X), 2004 NYU Excavations at Amheida, CC-BY, flic.kr/p/7VJUfy Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath, 1610, Rome, Galleria Borghese, CC-PD commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:David_with_the _Head_of_Goliath- Caravaggio_(1610).jpg Harp Player: cycladic, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe Smial, CC-BY-SA, commons.wikimedia .org/wiki/File:Cyclad ic_harp_player.jpg Rembrandt, Self- portrait as the Apostle Paul, 1661, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, rijksmuseum.nl/en/se arch/objecten?q=rem brandt+self+portrait& p=1&ps=12&ii=0#/SK -A-4050,0 Video: http://youtu.be/RxZk 0dh7WoQ with kind permission from Amy Herman Video: http://vimeo.com/5 1146289 with kind permission from Philip Yenawine