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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Art Objects Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery Author:Jeanette Winterson 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 ... more »Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.« less
Absolutely first class writing. Every word counts, and Ms. Winterson's prose wraps around her subject like gossamer. It is a book that draws one into her world, and not only that, it teaches one how to look at art and books in a new way.