The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing by James Elkins

The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing

James Elkins

272 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy psychology informative reflective slow-paced

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In this “remarkable tour de force” (Publishers Weekly)-a “ceaselessly thought-provoking book” (Kirkus Reviews)-art historian James Elkins marshals psychology, philosophy, science, and art history to show how seeing alters the thing seen and transf...

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