Spurling at her brilliant best as passionate scholar, traveller and storyteller . . . Lavishly illustrated and lovingly well written'

An outstanding biography, as full of insights into the pictures as it is revealing about the man

Destined to remain the standard biography for a long time. Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse

Rothenstein uses an array of striking images to deconstruct everything about eyes, from the eye itself to optical illusions. Not simply a book for the art crowd

An eccentric compendium of images celebrating the world of the visual in delightfully oblique ways...the most moving section is perhaps The Unseeing Eye, where most of the pictures reproduced were taken by blind photographers and beguilingly demonstrate their sharpened sensual engagement with the world they are capturing

A fun record of how humans have observed, recorded and interpreted the world around them, throughout the ages

At first glance, the book is a slightly strange collection, but it's not until you read David Shrigley's introduction and understand the wider narrative that the penny drops...It's a book to return to.

The Redstone Book of the Eye is a compendium of fascinating imagery that celebrates the act (and art) of seeing...

This quirky collection of arresting images is bound to be a winner with readers who love squinting at those mind-boggling magic eye puzzles...to satisfy event the most curious mind.