How to use your eyes / James Elkins.
"I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--re...
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2000.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Things made by man. How to look at a postage stamp -- How to look at a culvert -- How to look at an oil painting -- How to look at pavement -- How to look at an x-ray -- How to look at Linear B -- How to look at Chinese and Japanese scripts -- How to look at Egyptian hieroglyphs -- How to look at Egyptian scarabs -- How to look at an engineering drawing -- How to look at a rebus -- How to look at mandalas -- How to look at perspective pictures -- How to look at an alchemical emblem -- How to look at special effects -- How to look at the periodic table -- How to look at a map -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Things made by nature. How to look at a shoulder -- How to look at a face -- How to look at a fingerprint -- How to look at grass -- How to lok at a twig -- How to look at sand -- How to look at moths' wings -- How to look at halos -- How to look at sunsets -- How to look at color -- How to look at the night -- How to look at mirages -- How to look at a crystal -- How to look at the inside of your eye -- How to look at nothing -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Postscript. How do we look to a scallop? | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preface Human Artifacts -- |g 1. |t How to look at a postage stamp -- |g 2. |t How to look at a culvert -- |g 3. |t How to look at an oil painting -- |g 4. |t How to look at pavement -- |g 5. |t How to look at an X-ray -- |g 6. |t How to look at Linear B -- |g 7. |t How to look at Chinese script -- |g 8. |t How to look at hieroglyphs -- |g 9. |t How to look at Egyptian scarabs -- |g 10. |t How to look at an engineering drawing -- |g 11. |t How to look at a rebus -- |g 12. |t How to look at mandalas -- |g 13. |t How to look at perspective pictures -- |g 14. |t How to look at an alchemical emblem -- |g 15. |t How to look at special effects -- |g 16. |t How to look at the periodic table -- |g 17. |t How to look at a map -- |t Natural History -- |g 18. |t How to look at a shoulder -- |g 19. |t How to look at a face -- |g 20. |t How to look at a fingerprint -- |g 21. |t How to look at grass -- |g 22. |t How to look at a twig -- |g 23. |t How to look at sand -- |g 24. |t How to look at moths' wings -- |g 25. |t How to look at halos -- |g 26. |t How to look at sunsets -- |g 27. |t How to look at colour -- |g 28. |t How to look at the night -- |g 29. |t How to look at mirages -- |g 30. |t How to look at a crystal -- |g 31. |t How to look at the inside of your eye -- |g 32. |t How to look at nothing -- |t Postscript: How do we look to a scallop? -- |
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| 520 | |a "I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselling Ways of Seeing, James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for 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 with 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--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous. How to Use Your Eyes is a thrilling read evocative of the work of Diane Ackerman and Stephen Jay Gould. It will transform your view of nature and the mind."--Publisher description. | ||
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