Reading Woman .org

Index of all essays published 2004

Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour (October 31, 2004)

Even today people are enchanted with the historical figure of the Marquise de Pompadour. Why this fascination with this famous woman, lover and adviser of the French king Ludwig XV?

Vein of Gold (July 25, 2004)

Does the book represent a certain task within the artwork at all? Or does it serve the resting position of the model only?

Why only reading women? (May 25, 2004)

Sigi Oberlaender, in Florida living artist and translater of the first essay asks in an interview with Friederun Hardt-Friederichs why the project www.ReadingWoman.org includes only reading women and not men.

Echoes of Vermeer (March 14, 2004)

Forgery and the New Vermeer. Where have the value and wonder of this Dutch master lead? And what about today?