We take for granted that words can describe pictures, but we don't often consider that the reverse is also true: pictures can depict words, as well as the people reading them. In The Look of Reading , Garrett Stewart explores centuries of painted images of reading, arguing that they collectively constitute an overlooked genre in the history of art. A stunning array of artists--including Rembrandt, Picasso, Cassatt, and Caravaggio, among many others--have worked in this genre during the past five hundred years. With ...
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We take for granted that words can describe pictures, but we don't often consider that the reverse is also true: pictures can depict words, as well as the people reading them. In The Look of Reading , Garrett Stewart explores centuries of painted images of reading, arguing that they collectively constitute an overlooked genre in the history of art. A stunning array of artists--including Rembrandt, Picasso, Cassatt, and Caravaggio, among many others--have worked in this genre during the past five hundred years. With innovative interpretations of their work, ranging from Bellini's open Bibles to Bacon's mangled newsprint, Stewart examines the give-and-take between reading matter depicted in painting and the "look of reading" on the portrayed face. He then traces this kind of interaction from the sixteenth century, when pictured reading generally illustrated people reading holy scriptures, to later periods, when secular painting started to represent the inwardness and absorption associated especially with novel reading. Ultimately, Stewart shows how the subject fell out of such paintings altogether in the late twentieth century, replaced by words, scrawls, and blurs that put the viewer in the place of the reader. Lavishly illustrated with the paintings it discusses, The Look of Reading charts the life and death of an entire genre. Essential reading for art historians and literary theorists alike, it will become the definitive study of this overlooked aspect of the relationship between images and words.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket is scuffed with minor wear at edges. Pictures upon request. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 432 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1800grams, ISBN: 0226773949.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; full black cloth hard cover shows only mild softening at spine ends, dust jacket only shallow crimping at spine ends and a light fold around the head edge, otherwise attractive and well-kept. Jacket now protected in a clear sleeve. xvii, 411pp. incl. index.
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Good. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and scuffing as well as some edge wear including flaring, scuffing and light creasing. Book itself is a bit dusty on top edge but otherwise in fantastic condition.
