What Heaven Looks Like: Comments on a Strange Wordless Book

by James Elkins

Somewhere in Europe--we don't know where--around 1700. An artist is staring at something on the floor next to her worktable. It's just a log from the woodpile, stood on end. The soft, damp bark; the gently raised growth rings; the dark radial cracks--nothing could be more ordinary. But as the artist looks, and looks, colors begin to appear--shapes--even figures. She turns to a sheet of paper and begins to paint.

Today this anonymous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946053023
• ISBN13: 9781946053022
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Abbeville Laboratory Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"