Drawn to the Word: The Bible and Graphic Design

by Amanda Dillon

How artists portrayed the Bible in large canvas paintings is frequently the subject of scholarly exploration, yet the presentation of biblical texts in contemporary graphic designs has been largely ignored. In this book Amanda Dillon engages multimodal analysis, a method of semiotic discourse, to explore how visual composition, texture, color, directionality, framing, angle, representations, and interactions produce potential meanings for biblical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884145433
• ISBN13: 9780884145431
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"