How to Use Your Eyes - Elkins, James (Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
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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.

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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.
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Autorenporträt
James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His many books include What Painting Is, Pictures and Tears, Stories of Art, Visual Studies, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.
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"...the book gives one the ability to grasp the whole through the details." -- Religious Studies Review
"...a useful book for writers, artists and teachers, as well as the rest of us to enrich our daily lives." -- Marilee Reyes, Star-News
"...visually stunning and mentally stimulating." -- Scientific American
"...fresh and engaging prose... lively... It is a passionate personal appeal to revel in the secret world of the mundane... Elkins works magic on the most ordinary things... The premise is simple, but once you've read Elkins' book, you will never look at a single object the same way again." -- Robert Cozzolino, Isthmus
"Elkins shows us the extraordinary in the most ordinary of things." -- Jerry Davich, Northwest Indiana Times
"An intriguing and beautiful project, it is wide-ranging and well-informed in the subjects it covers... this book.. takes us on a fascinating exploration of the visual world- which we too easily forget extends beyond "television, movies, and art museums"- in all its rich diversity." -- Lisa Soccio, afterimage
"In 32 informed yet graceful essays, Mr. Elkins, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaches you how to look at postage stamps, pavement, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the periodic table, grass, a twig, moths' wings, color, the inside of your eye and nothing at all, among other man-made and natural things." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
"Intriguing, informative, and revealing. A beautiful guide to the art of not just looking but also seeing." -- Antonio R. Damasio, Neuroscientist and author of The Feeling of What Happens
"[James Elkins] has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us "to learn to see anything." It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably. How to Use Your Eyes is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes will help us "learn to use our eyes more concertedly until the details of the world slowly reveal themselves." Readers will be inspired to stop and smell-nay, see--the roses." -- Booklist
"With elegance and imagination, [How to Use Your Eyes] tackle[s] the most difficult task of all, to take the familiar and "make it new". Elkins aims to take the briskness and efficiency from our gaze and help us see anew, and he succeeds brilliantly. Think of How to Use Your Eyes index for the soul. It may sting a little, but you'll see more clearly afterwards." -- Flaunt
"Beneath his blithe how-to instructions is the shimmer of an unstated but profound philosophy." -- Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review
"How does one read an X-ray? What do the markings on a butterfly's wings mean? Why do the colors in a sunset always come in a certain order? Elkins answers these and other questions in this engaging guide to little-noticed and little-understood elements of the natural and technological worlds. Elkins proves himself an enthusiastic, fun guide. With dozens of full-color photographs, this is a great book for the coffee table." -- Publishers Weekly
"You know how you're always being challenged to specify what you'd want to take along for a stint of solitary confinement on some remote desert isle? With this dazzling volume, James Elkins effectively proposes that all you'd ever really need to bring would be your own eyes-your eyes, that is, properly tuned and vitalized. If the doors of perception were cleansed, Blake used to insist, we'd see the world as it truly is, which is to say, infinite. Leaving aside its vitalizing bounty of particular revelations, what Elkins is really offering with this marvelous book is nothing less than Murine for the Mind, Windex for the soul." -- Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
"...a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations...Readers will be inspired to stop and smell--nay, see--the roses." -- Booklist
"It is a strangely alluring volume. In 32 short chapters, lavishly illustrated, Elkins looks at and tells us how to better see, such things as a fingerprint, a postage stamp, the periodic table, Egyptian hieroglyphs, an X-ray, oil painting, Chinese script, color, special effects, a face, the night, mirages, a crystal, a map, mandalas, engineering drawings, Egyptian scarabs, halos and sunsets. Elkins invites his readers to extend. perception beyond narrow specialties to see meaning in the mundane. He is ever curious, his mind seemingly in overdrive." -- Chicago Tribune Magazine
"In that fascinating zone where creative imagination and scientific observation meet, Elkins shines a conceptual flashlight, aiming to illuminate in 32 short chapters a fraction of what we are missing daily. He asks us to use our eyes and our minds differently, to see the world as few of us bother to see it because we rarely make the effort." -- Library Journal
"James Elkins guides the reader through a series of common, often overlooked visual experiences in an uncommonly meticulous way. His obvious curiosity and delight in natural events and cultural puzzles turn each chapter in a magical mystery tour of the ordinary and arcane. Elkins turns his profound attention in many directions-from the lowly surge of urban pavement to the "scintillating candant pathway" of the milky way. High and low, between the cracks and deep into the craquelure of daily life he goes, detecting, explaining, experimenting so that, our vision revitalized, we can finally see." -- Rosamond W. Purcell, author of Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters
"Elkins takes very ordinary things-postage stamps, culverts, pavement, shoulders, sunsets, grass-some not so ordinary-Chinese and Japanese Script, mandalas, an engineering drawing, moths' wings, a crystal, the inside of your eye-and describes them in order to see them. His intent is to show how everything, whether made by humans or nature, can hold our attention and be seen in a way that is fascinating and thick with meaning...the book gives one the ability to grasp the whole through the details...he succeeds well, demonstrating the vastness of what is visually available to us in this universe through focusing on a few things very closely. This book would be especially usable in an undergraduate classroom where the lesson is how to look at objects very thoughtfully and how much we can learn through sheer attention and time. Religious Studies Review April 2002."…mehr