On looking eleven walks with expert eyes

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Horowitz, Alexandra, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Scribner 2013
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991005274789706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conté: 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