Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

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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.”

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Book Information

ISBN 0676971326
ISBN13 9780676971323
Number of pages 337
Original Title Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate
Published Date 2000
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Very Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Toronto
Edition First Edition
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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.”

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Weight 1.3 kg