The Art of Looking Sideways

ISBN-10
0714852228
ISBN-13
9780714852225
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
532
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Phaidon
Author
Alan Fletcher

Description

Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 "chapters", the book explores the workings of the eye, the hand and the brain.

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