Resources for Reading

Gunther Kress' and Theo van Leeuwen's

Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

(Routledge, 1996)

This began as part of the work of the Markup Languages and Hypertext seminar at the University of Washington, Fall, 1998 and has been continued the next year.
chapter 1 The Semiotic Landscape Digital Images and the New Visual Literacy Greg Veen
chapter 2 Narrative Representations
 El Lissitsky: Beat the White with the Red Wedge,1919, 93K Kasimir Malevich: Red Square and Black Square, 1914, or else Black-Red Square, 1915(Artchive)
Chapter 3

London Underground Maps: topographic and topological (schematic)

Theo van Doesburg: Pure Painting, 1920 Jan Van Eyck (?): St. Jerome in his Study, 1434.
chapter 4Representation and InteractionSummary and CritiqueCara Lane
link on perspective:
Art Studio Chalkboard
link on perspective:
3-D Drawing and Geometry
link on perspective:
The tech perspective
link on The Gaze:
Daniel Chandler
Jan van Eyck: A Man in a Turban (possibly a self-portrait), 1433, The National Gallery Rembrandt: Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern, c. 1635 (120 Kb); Oil on canvas, 161 x 131 cm; Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden  at London. Rembrandt: Little Self-portrait 1656-58 Oil on wood, 48,5 x 40,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 83Kbgazing eye
p.144 The Third World in Our Street
chapter 5 Modality Explorations Kim Emmons
Theo van Doesburg:Card-players, 1916-17, Doesburg Archive, The Hague Theo van Doesburg: Composition IX (abstract of Card-players) (.djvu) [only BW, sorry!]
chapter 6 The Meaning of Composition Overview
Information Value (mostly)
Christy Flores
Lorenzo Maitani: The Creation of Eve 14th Cen., 155K Rembrandt: The Mennonite Minister Cornelis Claesz. Anslo in Conversation with his Wife, Aaltje 1641 (80 Kb); Oil on canvas, 176 x 210 cm; Gemaldegalerie, Berlin Camille Pissarro: Chestnut Trees in Louvecienne, 1872 Alfred Sisley: Boat in the Flood at Port-Marly, 1876; Musée d'Orsay,Paris Claude Monet: Yachts in Argenteuil, 1872
chapter 7
chapter 8
The Materiality of Meaning
The Third Dimension
Andersen Window
Studio Mendoza
Virtual Michelangelo
3d Notre Dame model
Sunflowers (note knife work)
Witkin 1, 2, studio shot
Poppies prints p. 236) Ed and Nancy Kienholz (p. 245)  
one of many views of Michelangelo's Moses at www.ocaiw.com/michel Antonio Canova:Paolina Borghese extraordinary closeup of David Charles Ray: Family Romance, 1993