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Forbidden Fruit book. There are four sections: First Steps: From the Cradle of Civilization to the Middle Ages; Piety and Luxury: Women Reading in the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries; Connecting With Books: The Nineteenth Century; Reading Becomes Art: The Twentieth Century. Each begins with an essay about women's literacy in the time period covered, followed by rich illustrations of paintings featuring women reading. Each plate also is discussed in some detail.

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. Throughout the ages, from Sappho to Mary Wollstonecraft, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings.

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Forbidden Fruit : The History of Women and Books in Art. by Christiane Inmann. Throughout the ages, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings.

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Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art, by Christiane Inmann, Prestel 2009. This volume is a gorgeous and interesting compilation for every reader. My painting Pandora, is featured in The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Contemporary Perspectives, by Margaret McCann, Skira Rizzoli, 2015. This book features outstanding examples of contemporary figurative art by established and emerging artists, underscoring the art of the figure’s enduring appeal and the pedagogy of the New York Academy of Art.

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century painting (see Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art by Christiane Inmann, 2009). Minsky, an acclaimed book artist and founder of Center for Book Arts, has recently published The Art of American Book Covers, 1875-1930.

Sitting with one of these books in hand transports me to a vision of a woman reading bathed in natural light from a 19th century painting (see Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art by Christiane Inmann, 2009). In other words, it gives me the sense that I am in another time when, books were often the everyday entertainment of choice and the words contained inside the gorgeous covers were considered worthy of fine ornament.