We say that every picture tells a story -- but does it really? Can we read a painting the way we read a book? Is there a vocabulary we can learn that will help us tease out its meaning? In Reading Pictures, Alberto Manguel, the best-selling author of A History of Reading, offers a spirited, endlessly entertaining meditation on the questions we ask ourselves when we stand in front of a work of art. "Much as I love reading words," Manguel writes, "I love reading pictures, and I enjoy finding the stories explicitly or secretly woven into all kinds of works of art -- without, however, having to resort to arcane or esoteric vocabularies. This book grew out of the need to reclaim, for common viewers such as myself, the responsibility and the right to read these images and their stories." Manguel coaxes the reader to look at art not from the perspective of a critic but as a curious student of life....
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