The Object Stares Back
On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins
271 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780156004978
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A study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed
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