Reading Pictures What We Think about When We Look at Art

Name: Reading Pictures What We Think about When We Look at Art
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ISBN: 9780375759222

ISBN-10: 0375759220

ISBN-13: 9780375759222

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alberto Manguel

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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,…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English