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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Elkins |
| ISBN: | 0415922542 9780415922548 |
| OCLC Number: | 43729106 |
| Description: | xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 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 -- 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? |
| Responsibility: | James Elkins. |
Abstract:
Elkins writes with the practiced eye of a painter and art historian on how we look at things: grass, the night sky, cracks in the sidewalk, a shoulder and complicated things such as mandalas, the
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