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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing (Hardcover, 2020)
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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 its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keefe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, 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 art can't change anything. Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781529027648
eBay Product ID (ePID)4046575211
Product Key Features
Book TitleFunny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicLiterature, Politics, Literary Theory
GenreArt & Culture
TypeTextbook
AuthorOlivia Laing
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height224 mm
Item Weight610 g
Item Width143 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorOlivia Laing
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- 10 Feb, 2021
A fascinating read.
Articulate, contemporary writing written by an expert on her subjects.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
