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The Story of Looking Mark Cousins

The Story of Looking By Mark Cousins

The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins

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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

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The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

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.

The Story of Looking Reviews

A wide-ranging history of looking, you will gaze at it in wonder -- Ian Sansom * * Guardian * *
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book * * Observer * *
Bloody genius -- CHRISTOPHER DOYLE
Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever * * Scotland on Sunday * *
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 * *
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive * * New York Times * *
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe * * Telegraph on The Story of Film * *
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller * * Guardian on A Story of Children and Film * *

About Mark Cousins

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.
@markcousinsfilm

Additional information

NGR9781782119111
9781782119111
1782119116
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
New
Hardback
Canongate Books
2017-10-19
432
Short-listed for Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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