Penguin presents the audiobook model of How to See the World, A Pelican Book, by Nicholas Mirzoeff, read by Jonathan Keeble.

In recent decades, we’ve witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation artwork, this transformation is definitely confusing, liberating and worrying all at one time, since observing the brand new visuality of lifestyle is not exactly like about How to See the World understanding it.

Nicholas Mirzoeff is a leading figure in neuro-scientific visual lifestyle, which aims to create sense of this extraordinary explosion of visual encounters. As Mirzoeff reminds us, this is not the first visual revolution; the 19th hundred years saw the invention of film, picture taking and x-rays, as well as the development of maps, microscopes and telescopes made the 17th century a time of visual finding. But the pure quantity of images produced on the internet today does not have any parallels.

In the first book to define visual culture for the overall reader, Mirzoeff draws on art history, theory and everyday experience to provide an participating and accessible summary of how visual materials shape and define our lives.