How to Use Your Eyes

by JamesElkins (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $52.53

  Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, and a shoulder are ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them - really look at them - what do we see? With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, the author invites us to look at the world around us, with breathtaking results.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $6.94

  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.