Ricardo Lopez-Leon, PhD, is a lead researcher-lecturer at the University of Aguascalientes at the Design Sciences Center in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Dana Statton Thompson, MLIS, MA, MFA, is the assistant dean of libraries and a research and instruction librarian at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, USA.

Introduction 1. Rudolf Arnheim: The Power of the Image 2. Vilém Flusser: Play/Read/Write/See 3. The Conspiracy of the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Relevance for Visual Literacy Today 4. Fontcuberta and Postphotography: unveiling the border between fiction and reality 5. Literacy Foundations in June King McFee's Art Education Philosophy 6. Visual Literacy Development through Picturebooks: The Contributions of John Warren Stewig 7. Abigail Housen: Visual Thinking from Museums to the Classroom 8. Unleashing Perception: Exploring Michael Matyushin's Expanded Vision 9. Thinking in pictures: Temple Grandin's contribution to Visual Literacy 10. David Howes: Pioneer of Sensory Studies 11. Nada Shabout: The Challenge of Visual Literacy in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art