ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |129 pages
Things Made by Man
chapter 1|10 pages
How to Look at A Postage Stamp
chapter 2|8 pages
How to look at a culvert
chapter 3|8 pages
How to look at an oil painting
chapter 4|6 pages
How to look at
chapter 5|14 pages
How to look at an X ray
chapter 6|6 pages
How to look at linear B
chapter 7|8 pages
How to look at chinese and japanese script
chapter 8|6 pages
How to look at egyptian hieroglyphs
chapter |6 pages
9 how to look at egyptian scarabs
chapter 10|6 pages
How to look at an engineering drawing
chapter 11|6 pages
How to look at a rebus
chapter 12|6 pages
How to look at mandalas
chapter 13|8 pages
How to look at perspective pictures
chapter |8 pages
14 how to look at an alchemical emblem
chapter 15|10 pages
How to look at special effects
chapter 16|8 pages
How to look at the periodic table
chapter 17|4 pages
How to look at a map
part |115 pages
How to look at a shoulder