The Story of Looking
Mark Cousins
The Story of Looking
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 the critically-acclaimed writer and filmmaker
A wide-ranging history of looking . . . you will gaze at it in wonder
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book
Bloody genius
Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever
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
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller
A wide-ranging history of looking . . . you will gaze at it in wonder
A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book
Bloody genius
Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever
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
Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive
Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe
Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller
Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish author and filmmaker. His books include Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere and The Story of Film. His films - including 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