Francisco de Goya experienced formidable social transformations at close quarters. Among them was the revolutionary increase in the number of readers and texts available, a phenomenon that had a profound impact on the artist's world and his vision of it. His work offers a sustained reflection on reading, an exercise not without mystery, the implications of which he explored in numerous oil paintings, prints and drawings. Reading is an ambiguous activity that can lead to knowledge or to ecstasy, to personal fulfilment or to self-destruction, to sanctity or to perdition. At the same time, Goya uses reading to generate additional possibilities of interpretation of his own creations. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual and artistic keys to a fundamental aspect of his production.

Language: Spanish

Pages: 252