Christa Zaat
William McGregor Paxton (American painter) 1869 - 1941
The Breakfast, 1911
oil on canvas
71.8 x 89.5 cm.
s.l.
Paxton's scene suggests his sense of humour and demonstrates his abiding adherence to academic compositions and techniques. The canvas shows a beautifully attired young woman sulking while her husband reads the newspaper, signifying his engagement with the outside world. She is excluded from that world not only by the inaccessibility of the morning news but also physically, by the multilayered window treatments that incorporate visually confining venetian blinds. Recording what one critic called the "newspaper-at-breakfast stage" of marriage, The Breakfast proposes that the domestic sphere was a cosy trap for some women. This disgruntled young wife is the "bird in a gilded cage" that Arthur J. Lamb celebrated in his popular song of 1900.
Family size and structure are rapidly changing in Israeli society, Taub
study finds Although the marriage rate here is similar to that in other
high-income countries, Israel is more similar to neighboring developing
countries in terms of birthrate than to high-income ones. By JUDY
SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH APRIL 18, 2024 05:57 Updated: APRIL 18, 2024 08:42
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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-797575
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