Reconsidering Critical Response: Student Judgments of Purpose, Interpretation, and Relationships in Visual Culture

Abstract

The research reported here focuses on the ways in which a group of high school students responded to fine art and other forms of visual culture, such as advertising images, cartoons, and propaganda posters. The project included a survey questionnaire that students completed while viewing slides and a case study based on information acquired from the questionnaire. Three emergent themes of student response are discussed: a) purposes of visual imagery, b) interpretation of visual images, and c) relationships between visual images. The results of the study indicate that a consideration of student responses to popular visual culture may aid in our understanding of their responses to fine art and that their learning about imagery in general may be structured differently than developmental research using only fine art suggests.

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