Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery: Winterson.
A collection of aesthetic and critical essays, Art Objects is an engaging look at the role of art and the artist in modern life. Across ten essays Jeanette Winterson alternates between sketching a theory of art and offering commentary on individual works of high art, namely the experimental writings of Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf.
Jeanette Winterson ART OBJECTS Essays on ecstasy and effrontery, Jonathan Cape, London, 1995 pp 3-21. ART OBJECTS. I was in Amsterdam one snowy Christmas when the weather had turned the canals into oblongs of ice. I was wandering happy, alone, playing the flaneur, when I passed a little gallery and in the moment of passing saw a painting that had more power to stop me than I had power to walk.
An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavor that defies time and differences, art offers new realities, emotions and worlds to anyone prepared to meet the demands it places on us. Art objects to the lie that life is small, fragmented and mean. Art objects to the myth of inevitable decay. Winterson's eloquent vision of objecting.
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Art Objects is a wonderful confirmation of this, being written in the most flowing and fluid prose tackling how we should look at art, how Gertrude Stein's autobiography Alice B Toklas bends the genre, her interest in Virginia Woolf, her addiction to books, underlining how she believes good writing is about the word and even questions about how we should live our day to day lives. This is a.
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Art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- 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.
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So it was with excitement and fear that I dove into Winterson’s first book of essays, “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery.” The book approaches many of the themes that Winterson.
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A self-important grab bag of essays on art, sex, and writing by one of England's preeminent literary talents. Despite her professed admiration for Modernist giants such as Virginia Woolf, Winterson's (Art and Lies, p. 105, etc.) vision is essentially a Romantic one, tricked up with a few stylistic gimmicks to give it a high-gloss experimental veneer. Following in a long, proud tradition from.
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery—which covers various topics such as Gertrude Stein, modern literature, and lesbianism—was published in 1995. Winterson produced a collection of short stories, The World and Other Places (1998); the vivid memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
In fact, the critics often sound more eloquent in exploring a world they do not even create. So it was with trepidation I approached the novelist Jeanette Winterson’s collection, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery. But Winterson succeeds in delving into the world of art criticism with the power of a creative writer and creative.
