How to use your eyes / James Elkins.

Author
Elkins, James, 1955- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description
xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

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    "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?
    ISBN
    • 0415922542
    • 9780415922548
    • 9780415993630 ((pbk.))
    • 0415993636 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    00036598
    OCLC
    43729106
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