WOMEN WHO READ ARE DANGEROUS

Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks--drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints--b y iconic artists such as Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Suzanne Valadon, August Sander, Rembrandt, and many more. As the book's provo cative title indicates, a woman reading was once viewed as radical. In chapters, such as Intimate Moments and The Search for Oneself , Bollmann profiles how a woman with a book was once seen as idle or suspect and how women have gained autonomy through reading over the yea...[Read more]