Jacobs on Tufte
Just a note that Alan Jacobs, whose A Theology Of Reading meant a lot to Margaret when she was working on related issues, reviewed Beautiful Evidence in a recent issue of Books and Culture.
Beautiful Theology
Signifying truth in more than words alone
A site for discussing the relation of meaning, images, sounds, and words to theological discourse.
The seminar begins with Magritte’s “Words and Images” at this page. It continues with Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on this page.
- Words and Images 3The third image in Magritte’s gr...
- Words and Images 2The second image in Magritte’s g...
- “Words and Images” 1In 1929, in the last number of...
- The story so farI came to this reading list, and t...
- Beautiful TheologyOK, here’s what I have in mind.A...
Reading List
René Magritte
“Les Mots et les Images” In La Révolution surréaliste 12 (December 15, 1929): 32-33. Reprinted in Écrits Complets, ed. André Blavier. (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 60-61.
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics. Tundra Press, 1993; rep. Harper Perennial.
Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997.
Other Likely Reading
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Luce Irigaray
Sexes and Genealogies. Columbia UP, 1993.
James Chandler, et al.
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Making Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2001 (orig. ed. 1983).
Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.
Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Just a note that Alan Jacobs, whose A Theology Of Reading meant a lot to Margaret when she was working on related issues, reviewed Beautiful Evidence in a recent issue of Books and Culture.
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