The Story Of Looking

Author : Mark Cousins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782119135
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Looking written by Mark Cousins and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.InThe 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.

Author : Peter Linenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399538801
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Look, Look! written by Peter Linenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking and stylish, Look Look! is the ideal first board book for babies just beginning to look and learn and a perfect gift for little hands. Look, look! Children run, fish swim, stars shine . . . all for baby's eyes to see. This sturdy board book, full of high-contrast black-and-white cut-paper art perfect for staring at, is just the thing for the eyes of the youngest babies. A few words in curving red type on each spread describe the scenes—a car races, a cat stretches, flowers bloom—and extend the book's age appeal so that it will be fascinating to older babies, too.

Author : Lesley Newson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190883227
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story of Us written by Lesley Newson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing. In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. We now know much more about the problems our ancestors faced, the solutions they found, and the trade-offs they made. The drama of their experiences led to the humans we are today: an animal that relies on a complex culture. We are a species that can and does rapidly evolve cultural solutions as we face new problems, but the intricacies of our cultures mean that this often creates new challenges. Our species' unique capacity for culture began to evolve millions of years ago, but it only really took off in the last few hundred thousand years. This capacity allowed our ancestors to survive and raise their difficult children during times of extreme climate chaos. Understanding how this has evolved can help us understand the cultural change and diversity that we experience today. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, began their careers with training in biology. The two have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Newson and Richerson take readers through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780307118639
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Jonah written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonah, trying to run away from the work God wants him to do, is swallowed by a whale, then put out on dry land to have another chance.

Author : Will Gompertz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561130
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Are You Looking At? written by Will Gompertz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day. What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art. You will learn: not all conceptual art is bollocks; Picasso is king (but Cézanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art; why your 5-year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? cuts through the pretentious art speak and asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next trip to the art gallery is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting. With his offbeat humor, down-to-earth storytelling, and flair for odd details that spark insights, Will Gompertz is the perfect tour guide for modern art. His book doesn’t tell us if a work of art is good; it gives us the knowledge to decide for ourselves.

Author : Ellen Tarlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534466207
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Smile written by Ellen Tarlow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130253
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Like Me written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dion Graham's confident, enthusiastic narration powerfully depicts a young African-American boy who is beginning to identify who he is in the world. Quincy Tyler Bernstine adds a dynamic array of female voices. No detail is overlooked in this production.... Realistic sound effects link the audio to the pictures and reflect the story's urban setting."-AudioFile

Author : Susan Washburn Buckley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618223237
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journeys for Freedom written by Susan Washburn Buckley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trace travelers across time and space as they pursue freedom and help forge America's history.

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374279497
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Looking at You written by Janet Malcolm and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the premier narrative non-fiction writers of her time.” —The New Republic Janet Malcolm’s previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was “unmistakably the work of a master” (The New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody’s Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, “Nobody’s looking at you.” But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump’s TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist Yuju Wang, to “the big-league game” of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In an essay called “Socks,” the Pevears are seen as the “sort of asteroid [that] has hit the safe world of Russian Literature in English translation,” and in “Dreams and Anna Karenina,” the focus is Tolstoy, “one of literature’s greatest masters of manipulative techniques.” Nobody’s Looking at You concludes with “Pandora’s Click,” a brief, cautionary piece about e-mail etiquette that was written in the early two thousands, and that reverberates—albeit painfully—to this day.

Author : Nancy Carlson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0670036730
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come/Preparate, kindergarten!Alla voy! written by Nancy Carlson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Carlson's reassuring picture book about getting ready for kindergarten is now available in a Spanish-English edition-and to a whole new audience of young children. The simple, comforting text and big, bright illustrations will ease first-day-of-school jitters and help make the early days of kindergarten exciting and fun.