Art Objects
Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$29.44
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 May 1996
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099590019 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099590018 |
| Author: | Jeanette Winterson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 1996 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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Courageous… Her writing is spirited and insouciant in its fusing of love of words and sensual desire
Courageous… Her writing is spirited and insouciant in its fusing of love of words and sensual desire * Scotsman *
Winterson is in fine form in these essays about art * Observer *
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…covetable, infuriating, stimulating * Independent *
About The Author
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out.
Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
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