Beschreibung:
This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers-in short, "humanizing" it.
Introduction1. Foundations for Picturing Human Forms: Conventions, Historical Context, and the Confluence of the Fine and Applied Arts2. Human Forms in Action: Agency and Empowerment, both Individual and Collective3. Animating Visual Narratives with Agency: Temporality, Pictures, and Human Forms4. Figures in Cultural Context: Envisioning Identity with Human Forms5. Emotional Appeals in Picturing People: The Rhetoric of Equanimity and Distress6. Humanizing Data Visualization: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Designing Data with Human FormsConclusion/Epilogue