Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
A Feminism, Writing, Language book. We mostly understand ourselves through an endless series of stories told to ourselves by ourselves and...
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...
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If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life. Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not a woolly blanket it is a sharp sword. The Waves, which is the most difficult of her works, is a strong-honed edge through the cloudiness most of us call life. It is uncomfortable to have the thick padded stuff ripped away. There is no warm blanket to be had out of Virginia Woolf; there is wind and sun and you naked. It is not remoteness of feeling in Woolf, it is excess; the unbearable quiver of nerves and the heart pounding. It is... True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges the reality to which we lay claim, part of the pleasure of love and part of its terror, is the world turned upside down. We want and we don't want, the cutting edge, the upset, the new views. Mostly we work hard at taming our emotional environment just as we work hard at taming our aesthetic environment. We already have tamed our physical environment. And are we happy with all this tameness? Are you? Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects:...
Eye-opening She is self-assured as fuck, so most of what she writes is convincing. It's really more like 3.5 stars- Winterson is fantastic when she writes about other writers, but when she introduces examples from her own work, she sounds too cocky. There's something really young about her voice here, too, but also something enjoyable and new. I still recommend reading it, just not every single essay.
