Visual Rhetoric - History

History

The exact history of the field of visual rhetoric is difficult to trace, as it could be argued that "visual rhetoric" has been studied and practiced as long as images have. The term emerged largely as a mechanism to set aside a certain area of study and to focus attention on the specific rhetorical traits of visual mediums.

Read more about this topic:  Visual Rhetoric

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    “History takes time.... History makes memory.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “As I am, so shall I associate, and so shall I act; Caesar’s history will paint out Caesar.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)