"The media ransacks the arts, in its images, in its adverts, in its copy...in its journalist's jargon, it continually offers up faint shadows of the form and invention of real music, real paintings, real words. All of us are subject to this bombardment, which both deadens our sensibilities and makes us fear what is not instant, approachable, consumable. The solid presence of art demands from us significant effort, an anathema to popular culture."- Jeanette Winterson, from Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery.
And check out: jeanette winterson's home page !
I first came across her work via the film of one of her most famous works of fiction called: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
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