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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. No dustcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The title of this book The Enlightened Eye is intimately related to my life as a painter and my life as a painter is intimately related to the ways in which I think about inquiry. Although I haven’t painted for more than a quarter of a century my engagement in the visual arts from age six onwards and my studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design did much to shape the ways in which I think about seeing and solving problems. If the visual arts teach one lesson it’s that seeing is central to making. Seeing rather than mere looking requires an enlightened eye: this is as true and as important in understanding and improving education as in creating a painting. Vision at least initially depends upon the existence of qualities that can be seen. These qualities may be aspects of the world we inhabit or products of our imagination. To imagine is to generate images; to see is to experience qualities. Both the content of the world and the content of our imagination are dependent upon qualities. It is through the perception of qualities-not only those we can see but those we experience through any of our senses-that our consciousness comes into being. The Enlightened Eye is about the perception of qualities those that pervade intimate social relations and those that constitute complex social institutions such as schools. It is also about the meaning of those qualities and the value we assign to them. (SP)