| Description |
xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| 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 -- |
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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 -- |
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Postscript. How do we look to a scallop? |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) |
| Subject |
Visual literacy.
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Visual communication.
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Visual perception.
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Vision.
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Attention.
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Visual discrimination.
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Vision -- Philosophy.
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Vision, Ocular.
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Attention.
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| LC no. |
00036598 |
| ISBN |
0415922542 |
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9780415922548 |
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