Women Who Read Are Dangerous - Hardcover

Stefan Bollman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858944651 ISBN 13: 9781858944654

Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Artists have long sought to capture the intimacy and tranquillity of reading in their work. There was a time, however, when female literacy was a radical idea, and women have certainly not always been free to read whatever they want, whether for pleasure or instruction. This highly acclaimed book presents a compelling selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of women reading through the ages. Works by a diverse range of artists, from Vermeer, Manet and Whistler to Edward Hopper and photographer Eve Arnold, are accompanied by commentaries that explain the context in which each image was created. Also featuring a foreword by the novelist Karen Joy Fowler and an engaging introduction exploring reading as a female pursuit, Women Who Read Are Dangerous will appeal to book lovers everywhere.

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Review:

Women Who Read Are Dangerous. What a title! I don't mind admitting that I would have bought it for that alone. But once inside, I found it was my perfect book in other ways, too, containing as it does, a feast of beautiful paintings of women reading by artists such as Felix Vallotton, Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse and Duncan Grant, and a politely fiery text which serves to remind one that, in the not too dim and distant past, for a woman to be seen absorbed in a book was considered at best a selfish act and at worst a subversive one. So I grabbed it. Christmas shopping... For me! --Rachel Cook, The Observer, 29th November 2009

About the Author:

Stefan Bollmann is a writer and editor, and the author of several books, including Women Who Write (Merrell, 2007). Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels, including Sarah Canary, Sister Noon and the bestselling The Jane Austen Book Club.

About this edition

• Publisher: Merrell Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1858944651
• ISBN 13: 9781858944654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 149