The Story of Looking - Hardcover

Cousins, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782119116 ISBN 13: 9781782119111

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2017

Synopsis

Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.

In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and writer 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 through the centuries. From great works of art to tourist photographs, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and protest, propaganda and refusals to look, the false mirrors and great visionaries of looking, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.

Brilliant and eclectic, The Story of Looking is a photo album and an art gallery, a road movie and a visual grammar: once you've read it, you'll never see things the same way again.

About this title

Book Description:

An investigation into the elements of looking, combining art and science and painting a portrait of our culture, by critically-acclaimed writer and filmmaker Mark Cousins

About the Author:

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish author and filmmaker. His books include Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere and The Story of Film. His films - such as 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.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782119116
• ISBN 13: 9781782119111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432