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How to use your eyes / James Elkins

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, [2000]Description: xi,258 p. : ill. ; 28cmISBN:
  • 9780415922548 .
  • 9780415922548 .
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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?
Summary: 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.
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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.

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