by Alberto Manguel · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420641416
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«Leer imágenes» is Alberto Manguel's essay on art, published by Alianza Editorial in hardback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Can one read an image? Manguel starts from this question to explore how images, whether painted, sculpted or photographed, transform the instant into eternity. Through artists such as Van Gogh, Caravaggio or the photographer Tina Modotti, the author awakens the reader to the visual world, unveils the cryptic stories that works hold and teaches one to maintain an interactive relationship with art, projecting one's own feelings and evocations beyond acquired criticism or prejudice.
For readers interested in the essay on art, iconography and visual interpretation from a personal and erudite perspective.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
