The artist and politics

The Artist and Politics collects two essays by Virginia Woolf: “Why "Art Follows Politics Today" (1936) and "The Leaning Tower" (1940). These Two essays are written in a troubled context, Virginia Woolf rethinks the creation and writing in a Europe in full upheaval. "The tower "leaning" stands out as one of the most important theoretical texts of Virginia Woolf insofar as she offers a biting deconstruction of the masculinity and in particular the way in which the English intellectuals until the eve of the Second World War.