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How to use your eyes / James Elkins.
Author
Elkins, James, 1955-
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English
Published/Created
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description
xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
QP475.5 .E456 2000
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Vision
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Visual discrimination
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Summary note
"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."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253).
Contents
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.
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 look 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.
Postscript. How do we look to a scallop?
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ISBN
0415922542
9780415922548
9780415993630 ((pbk.))
0415993636 ((pbk.))
LCCN
00036598
OCLC
43729106
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