Multimodal argumentation and visual rhetoric encompass an emergent field that explores how diverse communicative modes—including images, diagrams and other visual representations—contribute to the ...

This course examines the art history of France and its relationship to colonial cultures from the point of view of its patronage, creation and reception. We study the historical movements from the ...

CU Boulder Social Impact student Emily Porter discusses her master's practicum research exploring visual rhetoric and collective memory in political crises and how ...

Laurie Gries, assistant professor of communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won two awards for her 2015 book Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics ...

Rhetoric has been broadly defined as the art of persuasion. Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, rhetoric has suffered a rather bad reputation because it has been deliberately overused to mislead ...

The field of visual perception and material recognition examines how the human visual system deciphers the physical properties of objects—from their texture and gloss to subtle variations in surface ...