Glasses

Examines the lasting impressions eyeglasses have left on our culture as one of the most commonplace and oldest prosthetics.

Glasses offers an insightful and engaging reflection on optics as aesthetics, asking what it means to look, and to be looked at, through and within lenses. With clarity and ease, it explores how glasses shape not only what we see but how we are seen. Sharp, focused, and full of vision.

A brisk pop meditation and manifesto, Adam Geczy's Glasses finds the poetry in prosthesis. As an unrepentant four-eyed nerd myself, I loved it.

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published over thirty books on topics ranging across art, fashion, and comics. His blog is itstartswithadam.com