The Art of Looking Sideways

Phaidon, 2003. Fading to spine, former owner's name on front endpaper

A primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain, and the imagination. An inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes, memories - all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mind...