Title:
On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes / Alexandra Horowitz.
ISBN:
9781439191255
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Scribner, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
vii, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Amateur eyes -- Inanimate city : the material of the landscape. Muchness ; Minerals and biomass ; Minding our Qs ; Into the fourth dimension -- Animate city : everything that won't stand still. Flipping things over ; The animals among us ; A nice place (to walk) ; The suggestiveness of thumb-nails -- Sensory city : things that hum, smell, or vibrate. Seeing/not seeing ; The sound of parallel parking ; A dog's-nose view ; Seeing it.
Summary:
On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.
OCLC Number:
ocn820149011
Availability:
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