Funny Weather Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

eBook - 2020

"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 chara...cteristic 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...

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Published
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Main Author
Olivia Laing
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File Size2 GB
ISBN9781324005735
Release Date5/12/2020
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ASINB07ZTSR3WC
Release Date5/12/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781324005735
Release Date5/12/2020