Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Olivia Laing
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-86739-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN:	0-393-86739-0
Barcode:	9780393867398

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