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Funny weather, art in an emergency, Olivia Laing

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Funny weather

1121084773

Olivia Laing

art in an emergency

""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"--Provided by publisher

Foreword: You look at the sun -- Artists' Lives. A spell to repel ghosts : Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Nothing but blue skies : Agnes Martin -- Keeping up with Mr Whizz : David Hockney -- The elated world : Joseph Cornell -- For yes : Robert Rauschenberg -- Lady of the canyon : Georgia O'Keeffe -- Close to the Knives : David Wojnarowicz -- A great deal of light : Sargy Mann -- Sparks through stubble : Derek Jarman -- Funny Weather : Frieze Columns. A stitch in time -- Green fuse -- You are welcome -- Faking it -- Doing the Watusi -- Bad surprises -- The fire this time -- The body-snatchers -- Dance to the music -- Paradise -- A history of violence -- Red thoughts -- Between the acts -- Under the influence -- Four Women. Hilary Mantel -- Sarah Lucas -- Ali Smith -- Chantal Joffe -- Styles. Two figures in the grass : queer British art -- Free if you want it : British conceptual art -- Essays. Feral -- Drink, drink, drink -- The future of loneliness -- The abandoned person's tale -- Lamentations -- Party going -- Skin bags -- Reading. Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman -- New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight by Jenni Quilter -- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson -- I Love Dick by Chris Kraus -- Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt -- After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus -- The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy -- Normal People by Sally Rooney -- Love Letters. David Bowie, 1947-2016 -- Vanished into Music : Arthur Russell -- John Berger, 1926-2017 -- John Ashbery, 1927-2017 -- Mr. Fahrenheit : Freddie Mercury -- Say you're in : Wolfgang Tillmans -- Talk. A conversation with Joseph Keckler

Art in an emergency