How to Use Your Eyes
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | James Elkins | ISBN: | 9781135961602 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | August 20, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Elkins |
| ISBN: | 9781135961602 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | August 20, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
James 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.
James 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.
