Eyes by Hand
Prosthetics of Art and Healing
$54.34
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making.
This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has done for 15 years. Eye making is done by hand, for one person at a time, by a very small number of ocularists (fewer than 200 in the US); it is a slow, intricate, and unusually intimate process of molding, fitting, and painting that brings ocu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049832 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026204983X |
| Author: | Dan Roche |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Dan Roche
Dan Roche is the author of Love’s Labors: A Story of Marriage and Divorce and Great Expectation: A Father’s Diary. He teaches creative writing, journalism, and literature at Le Moyne College, in Syracuse, NY.
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