Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson

Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson

Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76360-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-16T16:00:00+00:00


And it is exactness.

Art always dresses for dinner. Does this seem stuffy in the jeans and T-shirt days of popular culture? Perhaps, but without a formal space art cannot do its work. To be exact is to clear away the clutter from what is essential. Informality breeds clutter and to call something informal has become a euphemism for disorganisation. Disorganised people live and work in clutter and they make clutter for others. Contrary to the bohemian stereotype, the true artist is highly organised and must constantly select and order her material, choosing only that which can be shaped to an ultimate purpose. This can be daunting for anyone who believes that the word ‘relaxed’ has a higher human value than the word ‘disciplined’. To read The Waves is to collide violently with a discipline of emotion and language that heightens both to a point of painful beauty. There is no compromising with this book; either you read it on its own terms or you cannot read it at all. No-one would expect to play cricket according to the rules of ping-pong and it is unreasonable to come at any work of art and blame it for not happening as you think it should.

The Waves is not an easy book to master but it never tires and it never fades. 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.



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