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Reading pictures : a history of love and hate / Alberto Manguel.

By: Publisher: New York : Random House, c2000Copyright date: copyright 2000Description: xi, 337 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0375503021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 750.19 .M277 2000
LOC classification:
  • N7430.5 .M274 2000
Summary: "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" --OHIOLINK
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Includes index

"This work was originally published in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2000." --Verso of title page

"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" --OHIOLINK

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