Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art by Manguel, Alberto
Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art by Manguel, Alberto

Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us,...
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Author: Alberto Manguel
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Language: English
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Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art by Manguel, Alberto

Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art

$42.14
Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art by Manguel, Alberto

Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art

$42.14
Author: Alberto Manguel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or download images on a screen? Are there ways in which we can "read" the stories within paintings, monuments, buildings and sculptures? We say "every picture tells a story" - but does it?

Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - Alberto Manguel explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent. A History of Love and Hate is not about art history or theory - it is about the astonishing pleasures and surprises of stories.

Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 10/15/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.98w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780375759222

About the Author
Alberto Manguel is the acclaimed author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading, which was an international bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, a Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year, and Winner of France's Prix Medicis. He is a widely sought-after speaker, and will lecture at museums worldwide, including the Louvre, ont he publication of Reading Pictures. He was born in Buenos Aires and lives in France.
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