Full name: The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing

Author: James Elkins Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780156004978 0156004976

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 transforms the seer. Black-and-white photographs. Similar books: The Art Detective by Philip Mould Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins Ways of Seeing by John Berger Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton False Impressions by Thomas Hoving Monet by Christoph Heinrich Art & Fear by David Bayles Art History by Dana Arnold Indian Art by Vidya Dehejia Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky On Ugliness by Umberto Eco Art Theory by Cynthia Freeland The Nude by Kenneth Clark Modern Art by David Cottington Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim Another Way of Telling by John Berger Trust the Process by Shaun McNiff Art Is a Way of Knowing by Pat Allen Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky