The Art of Looking Sideways

The Art of Looking Sideways
ISBN-10
0714834491
ISBN-13
9780714834498
Category
Design
Pages
534
Language
English
Published
2001-08-20
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Author
Alan Fletcher

Description

A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the limitless resources of the human mind.

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