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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Taking us into the minds of artists-from contemporary stars to old masters-See What You're Missingshows us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness. Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case....
2) Eye chart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 0Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failure, since it only gets interesting when you cannot read any further. It is the opposite of interpretative reading, like one does with literature. When...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. 0Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Exploring the origins, designs and themes of over one hundred pictures from different periods and places, Susan Woodford artfully expands our appreciation of pictures. Woodford's riveting prose compares different artistic approaches, questions assumptions and introduces us to a wide range of stimulating ideas. Wether looking a Japanese woodcut, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper or Picasso's Guernico, Looking at Pictures develops our eyes as well as...
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