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020			_a9781324005704
050	0	0	_aN72.S6 _bL34 2020
082	0		_a701.03 LAI _2
100	1		_aLaing, Olivia
240	1	0	_aEssays _k. Selections
245	1	0	_aFunny weather : _bart in an emergency _c/ Olivia Laing.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: W. W. Norton & Company _c, c2020
300			_a353 pages _c; 22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aOlivia Laing 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aArt and society
651		4	_aUnited States
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999			_c270310 _d270310