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In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written On The Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. "Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art." - Los Angeles TimesJeanette Winterson proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic, for when Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us.Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, and 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."Flashes of sly wit have an epigrammatic power... On Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Dickens and the development of English literature she is acute and always interesting...covet

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Author

Jeanette Winterson; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307763600

Category

art

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History