Women reading in art refers to any artwork that represents or describes one or more women in the act of reading. This subject is quite common, with images appearing at the beginning of the 14th century. Viewers are often exposed to personal and personal moments through these works. Reading Woman (c.1660) by Pieter Janssans Elinga describes reading as an intimate and introspective activity.
Beyond the exchange of ideas between writers and readers, scholar James Conlon describes reading as an intimate and erotic subject, through a captivating book that touches and holds the reader's attention, and offers the pleasure of a heavy touch. As a result, then, the image of a woman's reading becomes one of sexual subversion, and a source of fear for a male performer or performer. In the West, the patriarchal society, Conlon argues, the act of reading leads a woman out of a subservient role and into a context in which his personal delight, knowledge, and pleasure are literally in his hands. Perhaps in an effort to counter these menacing prospects, male artists have portrayed female readers in various categorical ways.
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Depiction of female readers
During the 19th century, for example, in the middle of golden age to read, concerns arose about women's reading as jeopardizing the marriage and family structure. Pictures and time illustrations reflect this fear that women will be tempted by the book and ignore their domestic duties. Other images imply the danger of tempting women with books explicitly related to their sexuality, such as Antoine Wiert's Novel Reader (c.1853), in which the demonic figure literally supplies the subject of women with fun reading material.
In Dutch Golden Age paintings, female readers are portrayed as part of the everyday genre, usually involved with letters. Vermeer, for example, created many works around this subject, including A Woman in Blue Reading Letters and Girl Reading Letters in Open Window. Apart from the real acceptance of female readers, scholars have determined that the letters included in Dutch paintings are almost entirely love letters. As Conlon puts it, self-reading becomes collected in these depictions with a person's disturbance and longing - perhaps a male lover - that ultimately undermines the subjectivity of a female reader.
Male artists also describe female readers in pastoral setting, such as in Monet Spring, perhaps in an attempt to tame or tame wild-reading actions.
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Female artist and subject reading
Interestingly, female artists are also interested in the subject of female readers. The depictions of these artists are very different from their male counterparts, showing the complexity of the topic. Mary Cassat's
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