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by Alberto Manguel · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · 392 pages
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En 'Leer imágenes: Una historia privada del arte', Alberto Manguel nos invita a explorar el mundo de las imágenes a través de una mirada personal y erudita. Desde Van Gogh hasta Caravaggio y Tina Modotti, Manguel nos guía a través de anécdotas, vivencias y referencias literarias, desvelando las historias crípticas que las imágenes guardan. Este libro es una invitación a interactuar con el arte, a proyectar nuestros sentimientos y evocaciones, y a descubrir nuestra propia lectura del universo visual.

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."