Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production

Graphic arts, information visualization, visual analytics, visual communication

Intellectual Content: Graphesis is a scholarly study of ways that our culture represents information through visual representations and understands (or takes in) information through visual representations. Graphesis traces a history of visualizations, from Sumerian calendars, Mayan astronomical charts, and medieval world maps, to our modern-day pie charts, bar graphs, and other common visualizations. Then Graphesis explores not only how these visualizations represent information, but how the visualizations carry with them cultural associations (about reliability, about knowledge, about ways of thinking) that influence how we understand, value, or believe the information they convey. Physical Shape: This is a paperback book, 216 pages, with both colour and black-and-white illustrations. It bears the author's autograph on the title page, reading "With best wishes, Johanna Drucker."

Johanna Drucker

Harvard University Press

2014

Alexandra Bolintineanu

Johanna Drucker

English