Looking And Seeing

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing by John Berger Pdf

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Author : Michael Findlay
Publisher : Prestel Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783641225162

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Seeing Slowly by Michael Findlay Pdf

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and instead trusting our own instincts, opinions, and reactions. Including reproductions of works by Mark Rothko, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Jacob Lawrence, and other modern and contemporary masters, this book takes readers on a journey through modern art. Chapters such as “What Is a Work of Art?”, “Can We Look and See at the Same Time?”, and “Real Connoisseurs Are Not Snobs,” not only give readers the confidence to form their own opinions, but also encourages them to make connections that spark curiosity, intellect, and imagination. “The most important thing for us to grasp,” writes Findlay, “is that the essence of a great work of art is inert until it is seen. Our engagement with the work of art liberates its essence.” After reading this book, even the most intimidated art viewer will enter a museum or gallery feeling more confident and leave it feeling enriched and inspired.

Author : Minas C. Kafatos
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0835606740

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Looking In, Seeing Out by Minas C. Kafatos Pdf

Most books on science and mysticism attempt to link modern physics to philosophic views of consciousness. This book explores the two as parallel processes-one outer, one inner. Our outward search is for objective reality- "out there" in the world. But what we experience as outer is linked to what we can know in ourselves subjectively. The inward search is for that level of consciousness that underlies all subjective experience, spoken of by the mystics. Like other recent others, Drs. Kafatos and Karatou find parallels between Eastern thought and recent scientific developments in quantum theory and cosmology. But they go farther and hold that the realms of consciousness and the objective world are complementary aspect of the same reality. Their approach is fresh and unique and shows how we are involved in the cosmic process.

Author : David Salle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780393248142

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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art by David Salle Pdf

“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman Rushdie How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others—How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres. Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye.

Author : Kerry James Marshall,Robert Storr,Angela Choon
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African American art
ISBN : 1941701086

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Kerry James Marshall by Kerry James Marshall,Robert Storr,Angela Choon Pdf

With a career spanning almost three decades, Kerry James Marshall is well known for his complex and multilayered portrayals of youths, interiors, nudes, housing estate gardens, land- and seascapes, all of which synthesize different traditions and genres while seeking to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society. Working across various mediums, from paintings to comic-style drawings to sculptural installations, photographs, and videos, the artist conflates actual and imagined events from African-American history, integrating a range of stylistic influences to address the limited historiography of black art. Produced on the occasion of Marshall's first exhibition at David Zwirner in London and designed by JNL Design in Chicago, Look See features beautiful reproductions of every painting on view in the show - all of them brand-new compositions - as well as numerous details and preparatory drawings, installation photographs and new scholarship by Robert Storr and Hamza Walker. As suggested by the show's title, these portraits use the etymological differences between looking and seeing as their point of departure, featuring subjects whose dissociated stares seem as defiant as they are mystifying. In keeping with his signature approach, Marshall has painted his figures in strikingly opaque black pigments, both fashioning and abstracting their presences in order to assimilate the limitations and contradictions of style, subject, and chronology inherent in art-historical narratives written from a white, Western perspective. Taken all together, the range of materials included in Look See constitutes a vibrant and comprehensive portrait of Marshall's original and ever-evolving practice.

Author : John M Findlay,Iain D Gilchrist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198524793

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Active Vision by John M Findlay,Iain D Gilchrist Pdf

This title focuses on vision as an active process, rather than a passive activity and provides an integrated account of seeing and looking. The authors give a thorough description of basic details of the visual and oculomotor systems necessary to understand active vision.

Author : Carol J. Rosen Chihara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1589099990

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Looking and Seeing by Carol J. Rosen Chihara Pdf

How well do you see what you are looking at? Practice and improve your observation habits with this little book, and learn how to enrich your life by seeing how interesting the world around you can be! Look at photographs from nature and find out how much you can see when you observe life like an expert does! For readers and nature lovers 9 to 12 years.

Author : John McQuade,Miriam Hall
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1507780451

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Looking and Seeing by John McQuade,Miriam Hall Pdf

Looking and Seeing is an introduction to Nalanda Miksang. A combination of a philosophical treatise and a playful photography manual, this first volume of three starts the journey. Through studying looking and seeing, flash of perception, and synchronization, we explore structured assignments to free the eyes and mind through contemplative photography.

Author : Phillip Hounslow
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514445419

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Seeing Without Looking by Phillip Hounslow Pdf

This is a book of nostalgia written by the author who was born blind in 1943. He featured prominently playing percussionand drumsin the showbiz scene in Sydney,including the push of the 60s and 70s. It's a story of adversity, encouragement and survival and answers to problems regarding blindness are dealt with.In his unique and disturbing upbringing, Phillip covers all aspects of emotion.

Author : Emmanuel Alloa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231547574

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Looking Through Images by Emmanuel Alloa Pdf

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.

Author : Chipo Mudere
Publisher : Author House
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781477214749

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Look and See by Chipo Mudere Pdf

Look and see is a book which provokes the eagle in you, to challenge you to enjoy the eagle`s view from above, for thats where you belong. Like Abraham the author is saying get out of your tent, look to the north, the south, the east and the west- What do you see? True vision always ignores the process but worries about the destination. God never speaks to you about the Red sea, the bitter waters of Marah, or the thirty eight years of wondering, he just talks of the milk and honey. This keeps your eyes and appetite focused on the destination. The Devil never talks to you about the destination; he only amplifies how insurmountable the process is. We were born and designed by God to be successful in what he destined us for. Absence of vision makes us look like an experiment or a biological accident in life. The great Physicist, Mr. Albert Einstein said, "Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". What really makes the difference in a person`s life? One would think the answer is very obvious, but if it was so, all people would be successful. In Proverbs 29:13 we read these amazing words: The poor man and the rich man have this in common; the Lord gives sight to the eyes of both. This kind of comparison is given twice in the book of Proverbs, first in Proverbs 22:2: "Rich and poor have this in common; the Lord is the maker of them all.

Author : Harry Chapin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UVA:X000077874

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Looking ... Seeing by Harry Chapin Pdf

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781838852108

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See/Saw by Geoff Dyer Pdf

'Wide-ranging and eclectic’ TLS 'Seductively curious' Observer ‘A visual and intellectual journey' Herald See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world’s most important photographers – from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb – Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.

Author : Bing Xu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698186385

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Look! What Do You See? by Bing Xu Pdf

A puzzle, a work of art, and a collection of classic American songs, all in an innovative book by one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. Every page of this book is filled with secret code. It seems like Chinese calligraphy, but it’s not. It seems like you can’t read it, but you can. Once the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, you will understand it all. And some of it may even strike you as strangely familiar . . . Twelve traditional American songs, such as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "Yankee Doodle," as well as five classic songs from Chinese culture, are written here in artist Xu Bing's unique "square word calligraphy," which uses one-block words made of English letters. From a distance, these pieces are beautiful but unintelligible art. Up close, they are a mystery just waiting to be solved—like the fine art version of "Magic Eye." For readers ages 7 and up, Look! What Do You See? is perfect for long car rides or coded notes to friends. Incredibly intricate and visually engaging, this is a book that children and adults will return to again and again.

Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459826786

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Who's Looking? by Carol Matas Pdf

★“In this delightfully original nonfiction picture book... the readable text offers understandable science, while the engaging illustrations promote careful investigation. A valuable addition to science and nature collections. Highly recommended.”—School Library Journal, starred review How do animals see the world? It turns out, very differently. In this nonfiction picture book, a young girl and her baby sister's outdoor adventure (hiking through the forest, picnicking in the grass and swimming in the ocean) is overseen by the local fauna. The way those animals view the girls is very different from how the girls see each other. Goats see far and wide in a panorama, whales don't see color the way humans do and a high-soaring eagle's sharp vision can clearly see a tiny mouse far below. Through clever illustrations and scientific prose, we are reminded that while we may see things differently, we all share this life together on planet Earth.