'In our image-saturing era the eye, it seems, is rarely afforded the opportunity to linger. ... In a world of visual over-stimulation it is all too easy to become little more than a passive spectator, casually watching one throwaway image rapidly replace by another. We risk forgetting the importance and, indeed, the sheer pleasure of looking closely, in detail and at a more leisurely pace at the images presented before our eyes, of engaging with and examining such images thoughtfully and critically.'
Mike O'Mahony
[foreword to World Art: the essential illustrated history]
Mike O'Mahony
[foreword to World Art: the essential illustrated history]
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