[Ailist] using art in the Dream process

[Virginia McKendry]

Hi Karin,

I have some theory stuff for you and your student, all available on  
Amazon and likely at your local university library:

Try W.J.T. Mitchell's work on visual representation. He's a key  
theory guru in this area:

The Language of Pictures (1980)
Iconology (1987)
Picture Theory (1995)
What Do Pictures Want? (2006)

Also, try:

Kress, Gunther. Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of  
Contemporary Communication (2001)
Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and  
Representation in Research (2001)
Prosser, Jon. Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative  
Researchers (1998)
Van Leeuwen, Theo. Handbook of Visual Analysis (2001)

Understanding the power of pictures was a facet of the research I did  
for my PhD (family values metaphors in British pictorial political  
argument during the Age of Revolution).

Please feel free to email me if you want more help on this. I'd be  
more than happy to assist another student in getting through the ordeal!

Cheers!
Virginia

Virginia McKendry, PhD
Brantford, ON, Canada
vmckendry at rogers.com




On Jul 24, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Perry Walker wrote:

> Karin
>
> I don't have it to hand, but Peter Senge's 'the Fifth Discipline'
> describes a Nordic organisation that produced its vision in the  
> form of
> a painting. It halved its accident rate even before it took any  
> tangible
> health and safety measures, simply because people had internalised a
> vision of safety.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Perry
>
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> Silet
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:30 PM
> To: ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
> Subject: [Ailist] using art in the Dream process
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me to research that shows the impact
> of articulating organizational dreams/visions using art (drawing  
> actual
> images, creating collages, etc.)  I use art a lot in trainings I  
> do, but
>
> am not sure where to point a graduate student who is trying to  
> argue its
>
> validity in her dissertation.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
>
> Peace,
> Karin
>
> -- 
> Karin Silet
> Outreach Specialist
> School of Education
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
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