Jeanette Winterson

Ten interconnected essays explore the active role of art in the modern world, offering writings on painting, modernism, autobiography, style, the future of fiction, Virginia Woolfe, and her own relationship to her work

Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Art Objects

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 work and the books that she loves.

Art Objects Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

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