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The Art of Looking Sideways Hardcover - 2001
by Alan Fletcher
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- Hardcover
Images, ideas, quotations, jokes, reflections, and scraps of useless information are distilled into a quirky entertaining feast for the eye and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 "chapters", this book explores such subjects as perception, illusion, and creativity. 700 illustrations, 300 in color.
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Details
- Title The Art of Looking Sideways
- Author Alan Fletcher
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 1064
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Phaidon Press, London
- Date 2001-08-20
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003456547
- ISBN 9780714834498 / 0714834491
- Weight 5.38 lbs (2.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.94 x 8.62 x 2.54 in (25.25 x 21.89 x 6.45 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Design, Commercial art
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002265411
- Dewey Decimal Code 745
Summary
The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mind. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imagery.
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- Library Journal, 01/01/2002, Page 92