Unflattening by nick sousanis6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “ Unflattening is Nick Sousanis’s meditation on the nature of learning and visual communication… At a time when graphic literature has become widely accepted as a medium for fiction and memoir, Unflattening breaks new ground in the use of visual narrative for the expression of abstract ideas. ![]() Unflattening deserves a place as a compulsory textbook in schools. It liberates itself from the standard layout of panels within frames, teaching the eye and mind to read the unfailingly intelligent black-and-white artwork in unconventional and new ways. “Ranging across a wide range of disciplines-the arts, the sciences, popular culture, critical theory-Sousanis argues that the verbal and the visual are inextricably entwined in the production of knowledge… It is a book that is dense with the syntheses of ideas, nimble, far-reaching and impossible to summarize. ![]()
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