Author : Leslie Atzmon
Release : 2011-03-11
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design by : Leslie Atzmon
Download or read book Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design written by Leslie Atzmon. This book was released on 2011-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as verbal or visual messages that have a tactical persuasive objective—a speech that wants to convince us to vote for someone, or an ad that tries to persuade us to buy a particular product—becomes in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design the persuasive use of a broad set of meta-beliefs. Designed objects are particularly effective at this second level of persuasion because they offer audiences communicative data that reflect, and also orchestrate, a potentially broad array of cultural concerns. Persuasion entails both the aesthetic form and material composition of any object.