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How to Use Your Eyes [Kietas viršelis]

3.76/5 (315 ratings by Goodreads)
(Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 254x178 mm, weight: 1134 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 19-Oct-2000
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415922542
  • ISBN-13: 9780415922548
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How to Use Your EyesDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 254x178 mm, weight: 1134 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 19-Oct-2000
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415922542
  • ISBN-13: 9780415922548
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Invites readers to see what they are missing in everyday objects.

James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at - and maybe 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. A butterfly's wing pattern encodes its identity. A cloudless sky yields a precise sequence of colors at sunset. A bridge reveals the relationship of a population to its landscape. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins also explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations.

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.

Recenzijos

"You know how youre always being challendged to specify what youd want to take along for a stint of solitary confiment on some remote desert isle? With this dazzling volume, James Elkins effectively proposes that all youd ever really need to bring would be your own eyes- your eyes, that is, properly tuned and vitalized. If the doors of perception were cleansed, Blake used to insist, wed see the world as it truly is, which is to say, infinite. Leaving aside its vitalizing bounty of particular revelations, what Elkins is really offering with this marvelous book is nothing less than Murine for the mind, Windex for the soul."Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology



'A magical mystery tour of the ordinary and arcane. Elkins goes detecting, explaining, experimentaing so that, our vision revitalized, we can finally see.' Rosamond W. Purcell, photographer of Swift as a Shadow: Extinct and Endangered Animals.









"Intriguing, informative, and revealing. A beautiful guide to the art of not just looking but also seeing."Antonio R. Damasio, neuroscientist and author of The Feeling of What Happens









"In 32 informed yet graceful essays, Mr. Elkins, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaches you how to look at postage stamps, pavement, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the periodic table, grass, a twig, moths' wings, color, the inside of your eye and nothing at all, among other man-made and natural things."The New York Times



"Elkins proves himself an enthusiastic, fun guide. With dozens of full-color photographs, this is a great book for the coffee table."Publishers Weekly



"...a useful book for writers, artists and teachers, as well as the rest of us to enrich our daily lives."Marilee Reyes, Star-News





"Elkins shows us the extraordinary in the most ordinary of things."Jerry Davich, Northwest Indiana Times





"An intriguing and beautiful project, it is wide-ranging and well-informed in the subjects it covers... this booktakes us on a fascinating exploration of the visual world- which we too easily forget extends beyond television, movies, and art museums- in all its rich diversity."Lisa Soccio, afterimage

Contents: Preface; Human Artifacts;
1. How to look at a postage stamp;
2. How to look at a culvert;
3. How to look at an oil painting;
4. How to
look at pavement;
5. How to look at an X-ray;
6. How to look at Linear B:
7.
How to look at Chinese script;
8. How to look at hieroglyphs;
9. How to look
at Egyptian scarabs;
10. How to look at an engineering drawing;
11. How to
look at a rebus;
12. How to look at mandalas;
13. How to look at perspective
pictures;
14. How to look at an alchemical emblem;
15. How to look at special
effects;
16. How to look at the periodic table;
17. How to look at a map;
Natural History;
18. How to look at a shoulder;
19. How to look at a face;
20. How to look at a fingerprint;
21. How to look at grass;
22. How to look
at a twig;
23. How to look at sand;
24. How to look at moths' wings; 25; How
to look at halos;
26. How to look at sunsets;
27. How to look at color;
28.
How to look at the night;
29. How to look at mirages;
30. How to look at a
crystal;
31. How to look at the inside of your eye;
32. How to look at
nothing; Postscript: How do we look to a scallop?; List of plates; Index
James Elkins is Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of What Painting Is (1998) and Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? (1999), both published by Routledge.