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The following is a list of some texts and museums that can help deepen your understanding of visual rhetoric.

Creation Art Center. Miami, FL, www.creationartcenter.org/

El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY, www.elmuseo.org/

Helmers, Marguerite H. The Elements of Visual Analysis. Pearson Longman, 2006.

Honeywill, Paul. Visual Language for the World Wide Web. Intellect, 1999.

The Honolulu Museum of Art. Honolulu, HI, honolulumuseum.org/

Jenks, Chris, editor. Visual Culture. Routledge, 1995.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA, www.lacma.org/

McClean, Shilo T. Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film. MIT P, 2007.

National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Montgomery, AL, museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial

National Museum of Mexican Art. Chicago, IL, nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/

O’Connell, Mark, and Raje Airey. The Illustrated Dictionary of Signs and Symbols. Anness, 2009.

Perelman, Chaïm, and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Translated by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver, U of Notre Dame P, 1969.

The Rubin Museum of Art. New York, NY, rubinmuseum.org/

The Smithsonian National Museum Network. Washington, DC (collections with special cultural interests detailed below)

Asian Pacific American Center, smithsonianapa.org/

Latino Center, latino.si.edu/latino-center

National Museum of African American History and Culture, nmaahc.si.edu/

National Museum of the American Indian, americanindian.si.edu/

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, asia.si.edu/

Stocchetti, Matteo, and Karin Kukkonen, editors. Images in Use: Towards the Critical Analysis of Visual Communication. John Benjamins, 2011.

Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum. Detroit, MI, www.tuskegeemuseum.org/

Whitney Plantation. Wallace, LA, www.whitneyplantation.org/

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