Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World

by Alva No and Alva Noë

Book Overview

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva No , presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it means to be an "observer." Experiencing art - letting it do its work on us - takes thought, attention, and focus. It requires creation, even from the beholder. And it is in this process of confrontation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190928212
• ISBN13: 9780190928216
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.2"