1/27/2005
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To Ongoing Everyday Suspicion
•Ever read a positive article about TV watching?
•Or a negative one about doing any type of reading or math?
•Which do people think smarter: math grad or art student?
•Under suspicion in academia, e.g., although Greeks relied on geometry, visuals shut out of math until recently (Phil Davis lecture)
The TV “look”
So, In addition to being a field with runaway explosion of content,
visual thinking and communication have been under suspicion in academia for hundreds of year.

We’ll be exploring some more of the history and  reasons in detail later.




SOURCES
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Image mine
Downcast eyes (Martin Jay), Barbara Stafford’s Good Looking.