Funny Weather - Olivia Laing, Picador
Funny Weather - Olivia Laing, Picador 'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn this remarkable,…
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Funny Weather - Olivia Laing, Picador
'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - TelegraphIn 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.Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their roles in our political and emotional lives. 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. She 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.
It changes how we see the world, it exposes inequality, and it offers fertile new ways of living. In Funny Weather, Laing argues that it can.