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Readers

Room 10

The spiritual powers conventionally attributed to women are found residually in the “reader” type. Reading contains echoes of those spiritual, magical or mystical powers attributed to women in traditional iconography. Reading produces a bubble in which women can live their lives through the lives of others. The female reader can build what Virginia Woolf called “a room of one’s own”. Reading is an inner activity that defies all pictorial representation. In painting we are sometimes able to read a title; anything else is always illegible, inaccessible. That is why depiction of reading involves a process of exteriorisation, of “theatricalisation”. As we cannot read the text, we read the reader’s body, which provides a stage for or “somatises” the reading.

  • Mrs Hessel Wearing a Red Dress, Reading
    Autor:
    Édouard Vuillard
    Título:
    Mrs Hessel Wearing a Red Dress, Reading, c. 1905
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    Oil on board, 39.5 x 36.6 cm
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    Úbicacion:
    Private Collection, Paris
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  • Reading
    Autor:
    Gerhard Richter
    Título:
    Reading, 1994
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    Oil on linen, 72.39 x 101.92 cm
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    Úbicacion:
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
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  • Saint Catherine Reading a Book
    Autor:
    Onorio Marinari
    Título:
    Saint Catherine Reading a Book
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    Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 119 cm
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    Úbicacion:
    Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Vaduz-Vienna
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