Reading Pictures offers a great history of... well, reading pictures.  It provides a heavily researched, richly documented, centuries long, and geographically wide historical view of the narrative elements – tales, stories, religious truths, legends, myths, sales pitches, etc. – embedded in images, as well as their mutually reinforcing combinatoins with text, that does the double-duty of (i. e., can easily be read as) providing a framework for an understanding of the devlopment of the language of comics – which are directly referenced in the concluding chapter.

This 400 page, 8 1/2" x 10" heavy duty hardcover is filled with explicated illustrations from the history of Eastern as well as Western visual culture, making it both a treat for the eyes and the mind.

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