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The Story of Looking
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Ideal for readers interested in arts, culture, history, and the philosophy of perception, as well as fans of visual storytelling and those who appreciate interdisciplinary perspectives on how we engage with images and the world.
An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by critically-acclaimed writer and filmmaker Mark Cousins.
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In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries.
From great works of art to holiday photos, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and history, protest and propaganda, and the refusal to look, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.
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Praised as a wide-ranging and illuminating history of human vision, critics describe the book as a gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook with eclectic taste and precise judgement. It is celebrated for its depth, breadth, and captivating narrative style—deemed indispensable and fascinating across sources including the Guardian, Observer, and New York Times.
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ISBN: 9781782119135
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 September 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Illustration: full colour
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 180.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 1000g
Pages: 432
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About the Author
Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish author and filmmaker. His books include Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere and The Story of Film. His films - including I am Belfast, The First Movie, Atomic and The Story of Film: An Odyssey - have won a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia and the Stanley Kubrick Award, and have been shown in MoMA in New York, at the Cannes Film Festival and around the world. He is Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Glasgow. He lives in Edinburgh.
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