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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Paperback • 1997 • English

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

By Jeanette Winterson

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780679768203

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Format

Paperback

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