The Eye: The Seer and the Seen

by Francis Huxley

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500810346
• ISBN13: 9780500810347
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

The Power of the Eye

Ironically, one of most potent and multifaceted visual metaphors is the eye itself. In this book, Francis Huxley blends science, art, mythology, and religion to demonstrate the layers of meaning in the image of the eye. The text is interspersed with drawing, diagrams, and color plates throughout, so the entire book is quite visually engaging. Huxley explores the eye as a symbol of the Sacred, as a praeternatural attribute of monsters, as a weapon (e.g. "the evil eye"), and as an emblem of what is highest in human nature. The images in the book draw from ancient and modern sources worldwide. This is a wonderful and thought-provoking book about this ubiquitous symbol.