The Art of Seeing Things

Author: John Burroughs
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815628804
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs anthologies, this volume celebrates the surprising range of his writing to include religion, philosophy, conservation, and farming. In doing so, it emphasizes the process of the literary naturalist, specifically the lively connection the author makes between perceiving nature and how perception permeates all aspects of life experiences

Ways of Seeing

Author: John Berger
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014103579X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Contains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.

The Art of Seeing

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eye
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Seeing Things

Author: Joel Meyerowitz
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
ISBN: 9781597113151
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Uses photographs to provide examples on how to interpret and appreciate photographs, offering advice on characteristics such as color, timing, and emotion.

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520256093
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins

Seeing Things

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466855738
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.

The Object Stares Back

Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156004978
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed.

Seeing Things John's Way

Author: David A. deSilva
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664224493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The emotionally evocative power of the book of Revelation has been often noted and experienced by interpreters, but until now it has never been systematically explored. The strange visions of the book of Revelation provide some of the most difficult passages of the New Testament, yet Christians have long been fascinated by its power and provocative pronouncements. David deSilva analyzes how the book argues and persuades us to see the world through the eyes of John, and suggests that the study of ancient rhetoric is particularly valuable in understanding the book of Revelation. deSilva interprets the book of Revelation as a rhetorical and communicative strategy to persuade a particular audience for specific goals. Throughout this analysis, he pursues John's construction of his own authority, John's use of emotion and logic, and his attempt to shape the formation of the reader. Despite the complexities of Revelation, deSilva has produced a remarkably clear text sure to cause readers to rethink their view of Revelation.

On Looking

Author: Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471126226
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 365

Book Description
You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do. In so doing, it is inevitable that we also bring along attention's companion: inattention to everything else. This book begins with that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask, attending to two or three or four tasks at once. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture, or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary'. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. This book is about that walk around the block, and how to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities.