Initial thoughts and observations
Going through the book and simply looking at all the images is a novel way to approach a textbook for the sake of learning. As a primarily visual learner I recognize it as a great way to really engage my curiosity and desire to learn more.
What really caught my eye while going through this book was the evolution of the way that visuals were used to communicate. From the beginning with the simple cave paintings of our prehistoric ancestors to our modern advertisements, you can quite literally see the language evolve over the course of hundreds of years by turning these pages. What I found fascinating is that the images shown in this book have similar subjects and layouts. They mainly focus on the combination between the written word and illustrations depicting human figures; a way of sharing ideas that I now realize has been with humankind since it's inception, but the sophistication of the images greatly increases as timeline of the images closes in on the modern age.
Another thing that really stuck out at me was that as time progressed and printing technology evolved, the use of images began to overtake the use of text in regards to how ideas were communicated. Whether this comes from a kind of visual collective unconscious or simply that the technology had restricted artists in this regard before, I can only postulate, but I am eager to delve more into these concepts as the quarter progresses.
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