The Redstone Book of the Eye

Oct 5, 2024 2:22 PM

Author:Julian Rothenstein

As we look at the world the eye seeks meaning, searches for the familiar. 'I see!' we say when the penny drops, when things make sense. Then we smile - for the mind enjoys the eye surprised.

But when it encounters things odd and unexpected, it is stopped in its tracks. The Redstone Book of the Eye confounds expectations and counters the familiar. It will excite the eye: make you look again, see things anew, tease the mind and make you smile.

Julian Rothenstein is the brilliant editor and designer of Redstone Press. Now he joins Square Peg to bring you a compendium of visual delight from a lifetime of looking for beautiful, strange, surprising and intriguing images.

Reviews

Julian Rothenstein's books are extraordinary - their range of reference seems to be universal and yet they have a flavour distinctively of their own. This Book of the Eye is no exception - vintage Redstone

—— Quentin Blake

His whole mission has been to make beautiful things and the results have almost never been equalled

—— Will Self

Visual confusion and asymmetrical beauty are celebrated in this stimulating series of images and photos

—— The Times

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

—— Big Issue

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

—— Metro

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

—— Time Out

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.

—— Aesthetica Magazine

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

—— Creative Review

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.

—— Image Magazine

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