Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
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Beschreibung
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.
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I loved „To the River“, didn‘t liked „Crudo“. „Funny Weather“ was a real disappointment! My disappointment with this book is more about my high expectations for it than anything wrong with this book. But it‘s more of a coffee table book. I don‘t think Funny Weather did justice to the subjects Olivia Laing is writing about. I expected a much deeper plea for Art and it’s impact of how we see the world. The Foreword was the best part of the book.
Beschreibung
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.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
I loved „To the River“, didn‘t liked „Crudo“. „Funny Weather“ was a real disappointment! My disappointment with this book is more about my high expectations for it than anything wrong with this book. But it‘s more of a coffee table book. I don‘t think Funny Weather did justice to the subjects Olivia Laing is writing about. I expected a much deeper plea for Art and it’s impact of how we see the world. The Foreword was the best part of the book.