How to use your eyes / James Elkins.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2009Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiii, 272 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780415993630 (pbk.) :; 0415993636 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Attention | Visual discrimination | Vision -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 612.8'4 Summary: This text is a box of observations about observation itself. The book examines how we look at things, and how we see, or don't see things; grass, the night sky, cracks in the pavement or in old oil paintings, the inside of our eyeballs and even a shoulder. The author explains the meaning of the details specific to each object (such as grass) or system (such as muscles or a system of writing).
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Originally published: New York: Routledge, 2000.
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This text is a box of observations about observation itself. The book examines how we look at things, and how we see, or don't see things; grass, the night sky, cracks in the pavement or in old oil paintings, the inside of our eyeballs and even a shoulder. The author explains the meaning of the details specific to each object (such as grass) or system (such as muscles or a system of writing).
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