THE VIEWER tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover an strange box at a dump site. It proves to be an anci
A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry. Th
In The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston offers a richly detailed chronological overview of art historians’ evolving attempts to account for the physical posi
In The Viewer as Poet, Norman Land provides the first comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance.
This publication is the result of proceedings from the 2nd Global Conference on Visual Literacy held at Mansfield College, Oxford in July 2008. Although often t