Art Objects

Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

$13.99 US
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Apr 17, 2013 | 9780307763600
Sales rights: US,OpnMkt(no EU/CAN)
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

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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