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<p><p>in These Ten Intertwined Essays, One Of Our Most Provocative Young Novelists Proves That She Is Just As Stylish And Outrageous An Art Critic. For When Jeanette Winterson Looks At Works As Diverse As The <i>mona Lisa</i> And Virginia Woolf's <i>the Waves</i>, She Frees Them From Layers Of Preconception And Restores Their Power To Exalt And Unnerve, Shock And Transform Us.<p>&quot;<b>art Objects</b> 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.&quot;&#151;<i>los Angeles Times</i></p><h3>susan Shapiro</h3><p>my Mother Knew That Books Would Lead Me Astray And She Was Right, Says Jeanette Winterson In <i>art Objects</i>, Her Ambitious New Essay Collection. The Author Of Such Provocative Recent Novels As <i>sexing The Cherry</i>, <i>written On The Body</i>, And <i>art And Lies</i>, She Here Digs Into Such Disparate Topics As Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Art Appreciation, Modern Lit And Lesbianism. The Academic Pieces Are Filled With Such Abstractions As, The Reality Of Art Is The Reality Of The Imagination, And Far Too Many Quotes From Wordsworth, Shakespear

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Author

Jeanette Winterson

Publisher

New York: Vintage International

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679768203

Category

art

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.01 / 5 (1,584 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14