Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

by Olivia Laing

Book Overview

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 their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keeffe, reads Maggie Nelson and Sally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393867390
• ISBN13: 9780393867398
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"