Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
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Sell my copyAuthor: Olivia Laing
Title: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 368
Release Date: 2021-05-04
Details: "One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.
Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally Rooney, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time.
We're often told that art can't change anything. Laing argues that it can. Art changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.
EAN: 9780393867398
Package Dimensions: Height: 8.3 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.6 Pounds, Width: 1.1 Inches
Languages: en
