“…Generously illustrated and drawing on numerous examples of images and objects from 1600 to the present, this is an essential guide to the skills that students need in order to describe, analyse and contextualise visual evidence. The Look of the Past will encourage readers to think afresh about how they, like people in the past, see and interpret the world around them"…”

“…A gripping and emotionally searing novel from a talented author, Looking for JJ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child - by her friend. …”

“…Al Pacino's looking for Richard…”

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“…Look at More Stuff teaches you how to harness inspiration in order to achieve successful innovation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Starting to look: focus, space and colour -- Developing looking: eye contact, movement, landscape and emotion -- Looking, self, home and design: the things nearby -- Growing up looking: desire, abstraction and God -- Looking and cities: vicinity and vista -- Expanding horizons from the middle ages onwards: trade, crusade, empire and conquest -- Looking and science: not imposing a story -- Image war and the power of looking in the 1500s and 1600s: Protestantism, the Baroque, the Ottomans and Versailles -- What lies beneath: laughing and tears -- Looking and the 1700s: Grand Tours, enlightenment, industry, revolution and flight -- Looking and the early 1800s: Romanticism, America, railroads and photography -- The transparent eyeball; looking and the late 1800s: literature, light bulbs, Impressionism, cinema and sport -- The sliced eyball of the early twentieth century, part 1: microcosms, time and Tutankhamun -- The sliced eyeball of the early twentieth century, part 2: protest, Modernisms, skyscrapers and advertising -- The twentieth century losing its realness?…”

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