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.<\/p>\n
Funny Weather brings together a career\u2019s worth of Laing\u2019s writing about art and culture, examining their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, 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.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re often told that art can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
Author: Olivia Laing
\nFormat: Paperback – 368 pages
\nDimensions: 130 x 196 x 25mm – 264g
\nPublication date: 29 Apr 2021
\nImprint: Picador
\nLanguage: English
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