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Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers is a celebration of an

everyday object — the book, represented here in almost three

hundred artworks from museums around the world. The image

of the reader appears throughout history, in art made long

before books as we now know them came into being. In artists’

representations of books and reading, we see moments of

shared humanity that go beyond culture and time.

In this “book of books,” artworks are selected and arranged

in a way that emphasizes these connections between different

eras and cultures. We see scenes of children learning to read at

home or at school, with the book as a focus for relations

between the generations. Adults are portrayed (描绘) alone in

many settings and poses—absorbed in a volume, deep in

thought or lost in a moment of leisure. These scenes may have

been painted hundreds of years ago, but they record moments

we can all relate to.

Books themselves may be used symbolically in paintings to

demonstrate the intellect (才智), wealth or faith of the subject.

Before the wide use of the printing press, books were treasured

objects and could be works of art in their own right. More

recently, as books have become inexpensive or even throwaway,

artists have used them as the raw material for artworks —

transforming covers, pages or even complete volumes into

paintings and sculptures.

Continued developments in communication technologies

were once believed to make the printed page outdated. From a

21st-century point of view, the printed book is certainly ancient,

but it remains as interactive as any battery-powered e-reader. To

serve its function, a book must be activated by a user: the cover

opened, the pages parted, the contents reviewed, perhaps notes

written down or words underlined. And in contrast to our

increasingly networked lives where the information we consume

is monitored and tracked, a printed book still offers the chance

of a wholly private, “off-line” activity.

28. Where is the text most probably taken from?

A. An introduction to a book.

B. An essay on the art of writing.

C. A guidebook to a museum.