On looking a walker's guide to the art of observation
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 a walk around t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Scribner trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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. - Index
- Q&A with Alexandra Horowitz.
