Funny weather : art in an emergency / Olivia Laing.

By:

Laing, Olivia

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1529027640
9781529027648

Uniform titles:

Essays. Selections.

Subject(s):

Art and society -- History -- 21st century

DDC classification:

701/.03 23

LOC classification:

NX180 .S6 L34 2020

Contents:

Artists' lives -- Funny weather: Frieze columns -- Four women -- Styles -- Essays -- Reading -- Love letters -- Talk.

Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	NX180 .S6 L34 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001525087

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.

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