"... visually stunning and mentally stimulating."-Scientific American
"-the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us -to learn to see anything.- It''s a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably-.How to Use Your Eyes is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes will help us -learn to use our eyes more concertedly until the details of the world slowly reveal themselves.- Readers will be inspired to stop and smell--nay, see--the roses."
-Booklist
"Elkins invites his readers to extend perception beyond narrow specialties to see meaning in the mundane. He is ever curious, his mind seemingly in overdrive."
-Chicago Tribune Magazine
"In that fascinating zone where creative imagination and scientific observation meet, Elkins shines a conceptual flashlight, aiming to illuminate in 32 short chapters a fraction
