Art Objects

Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

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 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.

"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 Times
PART ONE
Art Objects

PART TWO
Transformation
    Writer, Reader, Words
    Testimony Against Gertrude Stein
    A Gift of Wings (with reference to Orlando)
    A Veil of Words (with reference to The Waves)


PART THREE
Ecstasy and Energy  
   
The Semiotics of Sex     
    The Psychometry of Books   
    Imagination and Reality  
    Art & Life   
    A Work of My Own
© Mark Vesey
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. View titles by Jeanette Winterson

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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 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.

"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 Times

Table of Contents

PART ONE
Art Objects

PART TWO
Transformation
    Writer, Reader, Words
    Testimony Against Gertrude Stein
    A Gift of Wings (with reference to Orlando)
    A Veil of Words (with reference to The Waves)


PART THREE
Ecstasy and Energy  
   
The Semiotics of Sex     
    The Psychometry of Books   
    Imagination and Reality  
    Art & Life   
    A Work of My Own

Author

© Mark Vesey
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. View titles by Jeanette Winterson

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