Beautiful Theology
Signifying truth in more than words alone
A site for discussing the relation of meaning, images, sounds, and words to theological discourse.
The seminar begins with Magritte’s “Words and Images” at this page. It continues with Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on this page.
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Reading List
René Magritte
“Les Mots et les Images” In La Révolution surréaliste 12 (December 15, 1929): 32-33. Reprinted in Écrits Complets, ed. André Blavier. (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 60-61.
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics. Tundra Press, 1993; rep. Harper Perennial.
Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997.
Other Likely Reading
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Luce Irigaray
Sexes and Genealogies. Columbia UP, 1993.
James Chandler, et al.
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Making Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2001 (orig. ed. 1983).
Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.
Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.