Funny weather : art in an emergency / Olivia Laing.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Picador, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 352 pages : 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781529027648 (hbk.)
- Essays. Selections
- 23 701.03 LAI 015440
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 701.03 LAI 015440 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015440 |
Browsing Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
701 JAG TESF146 Visual art and education in an era of designer capitalism : deconstructing the oral eye / | 701.03 BEY 001034 Beyond aesthetics : art and the technologies of enchantment / | 701.03 BOY 017139 Visual culture / | 701.03 LAI 015440 Funny weather : | 701.03 SOC 017315 Social design - urban change : arts as urban innovation / | 701.03 YOU 014443 Street art, public city : | 701.0309045 FRA 016235 Modern art culture : a reader / |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Artists' lives -- Funny weather: Frieze columns -- Four women -- Styles -- Essays -- Reading -- Love letters -- Talk.
"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty- first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways of living. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, and their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keeffe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Wolfgang Tillmans, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, Funny Weather celebrates art as an antidote to a terrifying political moment"
There are no comments on this title.