Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate - Hardcover

Manguel, Alberto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503021 ISBN 13: 9780375503023

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Provides a close-up look at the works of great artists and at the real-life stories behind the masterpieces, in a profound meditation on art, its impact on human life, our paradoxical impulses to both create and destroy, and the nature of creativity. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Alberto Manguel is the acclaimed author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading, which was an international bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, a Times Literary Supplement 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 Reading Pictures. He was born in Buenos Aires and lives in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375503021
• ISBN 13: 9780375503023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 337