EAN: 9781529027655

FUNNY WEATHER - OLIVIA LAING KARTONIERT (TB)

The book to help you make sense of the world' Stylist  'A brave writer whose books open up
fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph  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.  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.  'A warm  thinking  enticing sweep of a
book  like spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.' - Kate Mosse  author of The
Burning Chambers.

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