How to use your eyes [[electronic resource] /] / James Elkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799951703321
• Autore: Elkins James <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 0-203-94341-4; 1-281-70709-0; 1-136-92079-X; 1-281-09452-8; 1-136-92078-1; 0-415-99363-6; 0-415-95462-2; 9786611094522; 0-203-84453-X; 1-135-96160-3; 1-135-96161-1; 9786611707095
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 152.14; 153.7; 612.8/4
• Soggetti: Vision; Attention; Visual discrimination
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253).
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface IX; Preface; 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 and japanese script; 8 how to look at egyptian 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 map18 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?; FOR FURTHER READING; PHOTO CREDITS
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.