Recommended Reads for Visual Literacy

Abstract

Over the past five decades, the definition of visual literacy has been expanded and reshaped, yet there was no single resource that brought together these years of important research. To fill this gap, the author created Recommended Reads for Visual Literacy, a bibliography of recent articles, historical books, and archival collections that serves as a detailed web resource for visual literacy. This project seeks to empower the current research community and to encourage art librarians and visual resources curators to explore the existing literature on visual literacy to inform their knowledge base and instruction practices. In this article, the author describes the process of creating the bibliography, its limitations, and next steps for the project.