Reading pictures
Subtitle: a history of love and hate
By: Alberto Manguel
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Visual perception; Narrative art -- Psychological aspects; Art appreciation
Description: This book looks at the work of great artists--from the intensely familiar to the undiscovered--and examines the stories behind them, tracing the passage of life into art. For example, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-320) and index