Multicultural Challenge : A Visual-Cultural Guide to Coping in the Global Era.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: VISUAL LITERACY -- 1 Processing Visual Perceptions -- Becoming an Active Viewer -- Seeing Subjectively -- Seeing Objectively -- Integrating Subjective and Objective Perception -- Understanding Visual Memory -- 2 Decoding Art -- Encountering a Work of Art -- Identifying Visual Aspects -- Interpreting Contextual Aspects -- Negotiating Authoritative Interpretations -- Responding to Culture-Specific Aesthetics -- 3 Decoding People -- Regarding First Impressions -- Reading Face and Body Language -- Interpreting Dress and Style -- Recognizing Gender Specificities -- Creating Self-Images and Cultural Identities -- PART II: CULTURAL LITERACY -- 4 Processing and Decoding Cultures -- Finding Cultural Common Denominators -- Identifying Cultural Specificities -- Mapping Cultural Response Phases -- Conceptualizing Coexisting Cultures -- Assessing Dynamics of Multiculturalism -- 5 Understanding Our Present and Creating Our Future -- Tracking Cultural Shifts -- Living in the Digital Age -- Educating Toward Integration and Cultural Globalization -- Tracking Visual Culture in a Postmodern World -- Coping as Global Citizens -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX A: INFORMAL EXPERIMENTS -- APPENDIX B: GUIDE TO THE FORMAL ELEMENTS -- APPENDIX C: GUIDE TO ANALYZING A WORK OF ART -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY by Chapter -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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