Art Objects

Art ObjectsBy: Jeanette Winterson 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 arresting collage pieces have earned her international acclaim

How will she ever find her pink pets in her all-pink bedroom

but also disturbingly self-aware

feet covered in tiny hairs for gripping (and hanging out upside down)

When Olivia's life exploded—after she found out she was not the only child of a privileged Chicago family

But she’s not afraid―she’s never afraid

ghosts and atomic nightmares

her much-adored Lord Essex

inscribed for future generations

Willow's body is suddenly tossed from the third-floor tower room and left to dangle at the end of a rope

and manage a sayonara

one presidential impeachment