Olivia Laing

Funny Weather (eBook, ePUB)

Art in an Emergency

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art - especially in the turbulent weather of the twenty-first century.

We are often told art can't change anything. In Funny Weather, Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world, it exposes inequality, and it offers fertile new ways of living.

Across a diverse selection of essays, Laing profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keeffe, 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.

Written with originality and compassion, Funny Weather is a celebration of art as a force of resistance and repair - and as an antidote to a frightening political moment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529027662
• Artikelnr.: 57903360

Autorenporträt

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of several books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and Funny Weather. Their first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Their work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 they were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction.

Rezensionen

A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art Telegraph