The Object Stares Back
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins
ISBN: 0156004976
There is no such thing as “just looking”; Elkins argues persuasively that seeing is more complicated than that. As an art historian with a willingness to explore not only the metaphorical but biological underpinnings of vision, he’s in a position to know.
He considers extreme images (death, illness, nakedness), [...]
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