“What Is Visual Rhetoric, and What Is Its Tradition?” by David Blakesley
The differentiation of the verbal and visual runs deep not only in rhetoric but in mainstream epistemology. I propose that, rather than perpetuate this division of the verbal and visual, we now need to consider their common basis in perception. What we find is that even in everyday verbal expression (orally or in writing) there are profoundly complex visual components. We find also that there are verbal (and rhetorical) components in everyday acts of seeing.
“Visual Rhetoric” from Wikipedia
Visual rhetoric examines the relationship between images and text. Some examples of artifacts analyzed by visual rhetoricians are charts, paintings, sculpture, graphs, web pages, advertisements, movies, architecture, newspapers, photographs, etc.
