How to Use Your EyesJames Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often misunderstood and largely ignored, brought into striking focus. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous. |
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User Review - Cheryl_in_CC_NV - LibraryThingAlmost what I'm looking for. Each short essay was interesting in its own right - but *for me* it would have been better if the bits I was especially interested in were expanded. I suck at crystals, x ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictIn that fascinating zone where creative imagination and scientific observation meet, Elkins (What Painting Is) shines a conceptual flashlight, aiming to illuminate in 32 short chapters a fraction of ... Read full review
Contents
how to look at An Oil Painting | |
how to look at Pavement | |
how to look at An X | |
how to look at Linear | |
how to look at Chinese and Japanese Script | |
how to look at the Periodic Table | |
how to look at A | |
THING SMADE BY NATURE 18 how to look at A Shoulder | |
how to look at A Face | |
how to look at A Fingerprint | |
how to look at Grass | |
how to look at A Twig | |
how to look at Sand | |
how to look at Egyptian Hieroglyphs | |
how to look at Egyptian Scarabs | |
how to look at An Engineering Drawing | |
how to look at A Rebus | |
how to look at Mandalas | |
how to look at Perspective Pictures | |
how to look at An Alchemical Emblem | |
how to look at Special Effects | |
how to look at Moths Wings | |
how to look at Halos | |
how to look at Sunsets | |
how to look at Color | |
how to look at The Night | |
how to look at Mirages | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | How to Use Your Eyes |
| Author | James Elkins |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1135961603, 9781135961602 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / General Social Science / Media Studies |
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