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The Story of Looking
Mark Cousins
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Description for The Story of Looking
Paperback.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782119135
SKU
V9781782119135
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About Mark Cousins
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. @markcousinsfilm
Reviews for The Story of Looking
A wide-ranging history of looking . . . you will gaze at it in wonder
Guardian
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book
Observer
Bloody genius
CHRISTOPHER DOYLE Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever
Scotland on Sunday
An attempt to catalogue how and why we look, what we look at and how our social and cultural surroundings shape what we see . . . the result is, by turns, learned, often surprising . . . Fascinating
Glasgow Sunday Herald, Arts Books of the Year
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive
New York Times
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe
Telegraph on The Story of Film
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller
Guardian on A Story of Children and Film
Guardian
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book
Observer
Bloody genius
CHRISTOPHER DOYLE Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever
Scotland on Sunday
An attempt to catalogue how and why we look, what we look at and how our social and cultural surroundings shape what we see . . . the result is, by turns, learned, often surprising . . . Fascinating
Glasgow Sunday Herald, Arts Books of the Year
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive
New York Times
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe
Telegraph on The Story of Film
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller
Guardian on A Story of Children and Film