{"title":"《开场:作为艺术的书","authors":"B. D. Sun","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I f a picture paints a thousand words — as the adage suggests — then why am I using written language to compile my “Openers”? Why not simply paint a picture that sums up what I’d like to convey instead? Well … for starters, I can’t paint, or at least not very well, which is why I have tremendous admiration for those who can. When I pick up a book that contains eye-capturing images — whether a children’s picture book, a young adult comic strip, an illustrated dictionary, or a coffee table volume — my “reading” experience is transformed. The visual art fires up a portion of my brain that allows me to “marvel” in a completely different way.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Openers: The Book As Art\",\"authors\":\"B. D. Sun\",\"doi\":\"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"I f a picture paints a thousand words — as the adage suggests — then why am I using written language to compile my “Openers”? Why not simply paint a picture that sums up what I’d like to convey instead? Well … for starters, I can’t paint, or at least not very well, which is why I have tremendous admiration for those who can. When I pick up a book that contains eye-capturing images — whether a children’s picture book, a young adult comic strip, an illustrated dictionary, or a coffee table volume — my “reading” experience is transformed. The visual art fires up a portion of my brain that allows me to “marvel” in a completely different way.\",\"PeriodicalId\":29991,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Virginia Libraries\",\"volume\":\"58 1\",\"pages\":\"\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2012-12-31\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Virginia Libraries\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Virginia Libraries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
I f a picture paints a thousand words — as the adage suggests — then why am I using written language to compile my “Openers”? Why not simply paint a picture that sums up what I’d like to convey instead? Well … for starters, I can’t paint, or at least not very well, which is why I have tremendous admiration for those who can. When I pick up a book that contains eye-capturing images — whether a children’s picture book, a young adult comic strip, an illustrated dictionary, or a coffee table volume — my “reading” experience is transformed. The visual art fires up a portion of my brain that allows me to “marvel” in a completely different way.