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Alberto Manguel

Reading Pictures

What We Think About When We Look at Art

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-375-75922-2
  • EAN: 9780375759222
  • Produktnummer: 19418709
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 495 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 495

Über den Autor


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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