Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

by Jeanette Winterson

Paperback, 1997

Status

Checked out

Publication

Vintage (1997), 208 pages

Description

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.

User reviews

LibraryThing member woctune
The title essay is outstanding. An excellent argument for the importance of art.
LibraryThing member DawnFinley
Jeanette Winterson has a lot of nerve. She sees herself and her work as a sort of logical next step in the development of literary modernism. The essays in this collection are a way of explaining this lineage, and reveal her physical, lyrical, visceral attachments to language, books, art. Her way
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of writing about Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein is unlike anything one usually finds when looking at "criticism"; it's more personal, more intuitive, than that. If you are a devoted fan of her fiction, this collection is worth reading for the ways it illuminates (and sometimes obscures) the way Winterson approaches her art. If you care about the way we experience the aesthetic, the ways we think about and engage with art of all kinds, you won't be disappointed by this read. You may disagree with her, and may find her, well, effrontery rather incredible, but the richness of her prose and the strength of her insight are worth the effort.
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LibraryThing member viviennestrauss
For the most part, I really loved. this book and it makes me want to be a less lazy reader and challenge myself more with my choices. Much to think about here though at times I found her to be rather pretentious and annoying.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1995

Physical description

208 p.; 5.18 inches

ISBN

0679768203 / 9780679768203

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