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 - 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
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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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