Funny weather : art in an emergency /
Laing, Olivia,
Funny weather : art in an emergency / Olivia Laing. - 352 pages ; 22 cm.
Published in US by W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Artists' lives -- Funny weather: Frieze columns -- Four women -- Styles -- Essays -- Reading -- Love letters -- Talk.
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 21st 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.
1529027640 9781529027648
Art and society--History--21st century.
NX180 .S6 / L34 2020
701/.03
Funny weather : art in an emergency / Olivia Laing. - 352 pages ; 22 cm.
Published in US by W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Artists' lives -- Funny weather: Frieze columns -- Four women -- Styles -- Essays -- Reading -- Love letters -- Talk.
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 21st 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.
1529027640 9781529027648
Art and society--History--21st century.
NX180 .S6 / L34 2020
701/.03