FORBIDDEN FRUIT. A HISTORY OF WOMEN AND BOOKS IN ART
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- EAN: 9783791340777
- ISBN: 978-3-7913-4077-7
- Editorial: PRESTEL VERLAG
- Año de la edición: 2009
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 28 X 24 cm.
- Páginas: 216
- Materias:
pintura
mujeres, arquitectura, arte, feminismo
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The book further explores the changing circumstances of womens access to literature and education throughout the centuries in different cultures and societies. Chronologically arranged, the volume opens in ancient times, exploring civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Greece and China. It travels to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe, to modern England and America. Along the way readers are treated to profiles of Ban Zhao, Murasaki Shikibu, Christine de Pisan, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among many others. Artworks featuring reading women range from Pompeii frescoes to important works by artists through the centuries, including Hans Holbein, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Roy Lichtenstein, Balthus and Gerhard Richter. The result is a beautifully illustrated cultural history of women reading, as fascinating and inspiring as the accomplishments it honors.
