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pp. 337, notes, index. Black and white and color illustrations/photographs throughout. “The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, 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 wander through a gallery, or are there ways in which we can ‘read’ the stories within paintings, monuments, buildings and structures? We say ‘every picture tells a story’ – but does it? ‘Reading Pictures’ is not about art history or theory – but it could inform the way we ‘read’ this visual world, and help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches.”