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Elkins, James, 1955-

How to use your eyes / James Elkins - New York ; London : Routledge, [2000] - xi,258 p. : ill. ; 28cm

Includes bibliographical references

How to look at: a postage stamp -- A culvert -- An oil painting -- pavement -- an x-ray -- linear B -- Chinese and Japanese script -- Egyptian scarabs -- An engineering drawing -- A rebus -- Mandalas -- Perspective pictures -- An alchemical emblem -- Special effects -- The periodic table -- A map -- A shoulder -- A face -- A fingerprint -- Grass -- A twig -- Sand -- Moth's wings -- Halos -- Sunsets -- Color -- The night -- Mirages -- A crystal -- The inside of your eye -- Nothing -- How do we look to a scallop?

This text is a box of observations about observation itself. The book examines how we look at things, and how we see, or don't see things; grass, the night sky, cracks in the sidewalk, the inside of our eyeballs and even a shoulder.

ISBN: 9780415922548 . 9780415922548 . £16.99

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vision
Attention
Visual discrimination
Health and Wellbeing.
Theory of art
Philosophy: aesthetics
Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
The arts: general issues

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Vision--Philosophy