{"product_id":"reading-pictures-what-we-think-about-when-we-look-at-art-9780375759222","title":"Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Art","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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking 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. \u003ci\u003eA History of Love and Hate\u003c\/i\u003e is not about art history or theory - it is about the astonishing pleasures and surprises of stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlberto Manguel is the acclaimed author of several award-winning books, including \u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Imaginary Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA History of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an international bestseller, a \u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book, a \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eReading Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e. He was born in Buenos Aires and lives in France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323944669458,"sku":"9780375759222","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a7c3c5b-ca53-448e-9578-81758262c70a.jpg?v=1727662336","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-pictures-what-we-think-about-when-we-look-at-art-9780375759222","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}