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The Story of Looking
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publish Date: Nov 2nd, 2021
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: Main - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 7.00in - 1.00in - 2.30lb
- EAN: 9781782119135
- Categories: • Film - History & Criticism• Criticism & Theory• Film & Video
About the Author
Cousins, Mark: - "
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"Praise for this book
Bloody genius--CHRISTOPHER DOYLE
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"
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book-- "Observer"
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive-- "New York Times"
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller-- "Guardian on A Story of Children and Film"
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe-- "Telegraph on The Story of Film"
A wide-ranging history of looking . . . you will gaze at it in wonder-- "Guardian"