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020			_a1529027640 _qhardback
020			_a9781529027648 _qhardback
035			_a(coutts)cts23893243
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035			_a(OCoLC)1114803346
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050		4	_aNX180 .S6 _bL34 2020
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100	1		_aLaing, Olivia,
240	1	0	_aEssays. _kSelections.
245	1	0	_aFunny weather : _bart in an emergency / _cOlivia Laing.
264		1	_aLondon : _bPicador, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a352 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aPublished in US by W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aArtists' lives -- Funny weather: Frieze columns -- Four women -- Styles -- Essays -- Reading -- Love letters -- Talk.
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aArt and society _xHistory _y21st century.
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