How to use your eyes /
James Elkins.
- Paperback edition.
- London : Routledge, 2009.
- xiii, 272 p. : ill. (some col.)
Originally published: New York: Routledge, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references.
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).