54001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Brett Whiteley, Triptych
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Kress, g. , leeuwen, t. 1996, reading images: the grammar of visual design, routledge, pp. Information value of centre and margin: visual compositions structured on: centre and margin. Circular structures can create a gradual and graded distinction between centre and margin, as for instance in the communication model in figure 6. 20, where the process of "structuring" is more marginal than the process of "evaluating". In this model, nature (the "environment") is centre, origin and prime mover of communication. Compared to the dominant position of nature, communication is a marginal phenomenon, just as, in the medieval maps of cities we discussed in chapter. 3, the cities themselves were placed in the centre and depicted with topographical accuracy, whiie the surrounding countryside was represented on a smaller scale, and with less accuracy. Verbal commentaries do not necessarily "transcode" such meanings. Margin structure or a polarized structure in which the centre acts as a mediator between.
