Synopses & Reviews
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Table of Contents
Pt. 1.Art objects --pt. 2.Transformation:Writer, reader, words.Testimony against Gertrude Stein.A gift of wings (with reference to Orlando).A veil of words (with reference to The waves) --pt. 3.Ecstasy and energy:The semiotics of sex.The psychometry of books.Imagination and reality.Art & life.A work of my own.