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Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 437,641 ratings — published 1972
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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 5,026 ratings — published 2013
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The Arcades Project The Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,079 ratings — published 1982
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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 279 ratings — published 1989
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 395 ratings — published 1988
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Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture Screening The Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 29 ratings — published 1995
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Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published 1990
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Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 2001
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Discourse, Figure Discourse, Figure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43 ratings — published 1985
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The Threshold of the Visible World The Threshold of the Visible World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 47 ratings — published 1995
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Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 89 ratings — published 1984
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 534 ratings — published 1990
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,761 ratings — published 1942
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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 327 ratings — published 2005
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Alix's Journal (French Literature) Alix's Journal (French Literature)
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avg rating 4.09 — 57 ratings — published 1984
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Body Art/Performing the Subject Body Art/Performing the Subject (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 114 ratings — published 1998
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Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 66 ratings — published 1991
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What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3) What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,753 ratings — published 2025
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Vision and visuality Vision and visuality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 81 ratings — published 1988
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,131 ratings — published 1960
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art) Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
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avg rating 3.97 — 465 ratings — published 1979
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China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872) China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872)
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avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2010
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,649 ratings — published 1959
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Perspective as Symbolic Form Perspective as Symbolic Form (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 653 ratings — published 1927
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Soul and Form Soul and Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 144 ratings — published 1910
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Body Images Body Images (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1998
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Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics (The Frontiers of Theory) Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics (The Frontiers of Theory)
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avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published 2012
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,316 ratings — published 2004
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How Loneliness Goes How Loneliness Goes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2013
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Theaetetus Theaetetus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 6,558 ratings — published -369
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Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 133 ratings — published 1992
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The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 286 ratings — published 2003
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Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916) Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,255 ratings — published 1918
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The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 1967
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Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 21 ratings — published 2006
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Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language Body Art and Performance: The Body as Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 55 ratings — published 2000
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Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 39 ratings — published 2007
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Phenomenology of Perception Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,446 ratings — published 1945
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About Looking About Looking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 9,331 ratings — published 1980
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Polylogue (Collection Tel quel) (French Edition) Polylogue (Collection Tel quel) (French Edition)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2004
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Real Presences Real Presences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 507 ratings — published 1980
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The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 113 ratings — published 2002
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Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 1983
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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 24 ratings — published 1997
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Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (Rutgers Depth of Field) Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (Rutgers Depth of Field)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 1994
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Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 18 ratings — published 2003
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Tarjei Vesaas
“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden

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