The Story of Looking

by Mark Cousins

Overview

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to holiday photos, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and history, protest and propaganda, and the refusal to look, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782119111
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	02/06/2018
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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 Universityof Glasgow. He lives in Edinburgh.

@markcousinsfilm

Editorial Reviews

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

Arts Books of the Year Glasgow Sunday Herald

Bloody genius

CHRISTOPHER DOYLE

Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive

New York Times

Dazzling in its breadth and intelligence . . . A hugely impressive work by a uniquely talented storyteller

Guardian on A Story of Children and Film

A wide-ranging history of looking . . . you will gaze at it in wonder

Guardian

A history of the human gaze . . . Illuminating . . . Roams freely across history, art, film, photography, science and technology . . . Indispensable as a reference book

Observer

Extraordinary . . . Visually ensnaring and intellectually lithe

Telegraph on The Story of Film

Intriguing and beautiful . . . [A] gloriously haphazard intellectual scrapbook . . . Wide-ranging, deep-seeing and clever

Scotland on Sunday

Brilliant . . . His taste is eclectic and his judgments precise and persuasive

New York Times on The Story of Film - A.O. Scott

A wide-ranging history of looking, you will gaze at it in wonder

Guardian - Ian Sansom