Funny Weather Art In An Emergency Olivia Laing by Olivia Laing 9780393867398, 0393867390, B07ZTSR3WC instant download after payment.

“One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era. In this 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. 

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

Funny Weather brings together a career worth of Olivia Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their roles 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 Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. 

"Laing has acted as a kind of cultural sage for the past four years, an accidental literary grande dame of the emotional  havoc wrought by late capitalism and digital disconnect."  -  New York Magazine   

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. In Funny Weather, Olivia Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world, it exposes inequality, and it offers fertile new ways of living.