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This volume takes a look at the work of great artists -- from the familiar to the undiscovered -- and examines the stories behind 11 works of art, tracing the passage of life into art. The author mixes art history and artists' biographies with a liberal dose of his own wide-ranging thoughts and knowledge. Pablo Picasso torments his mistress Dora Maar and then paints brilliant studies of her grief-crumpled face; these evolve into the weeping woman in his great indictment of fascism, Guernica. The author untangles what this story, and countless others, shows us of our twin impulses toward creation and destruction. A tour of the psyche more than of the museum, this book ponders and wonders -- why we create. Taking a handful of extraordinary images -- photographed, painted, built, sculpted -- he explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent

Who reads Reading Pictures : What We Think About When We Look at Art?

Author

Manguel, Alberto

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375759222

Category

art

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.96 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14