Funny Weather

Resumen del libro

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 its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O'Keefe, 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.

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. Laing argues that it can.

It changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.

Biografía del autor

Olivia Laing es autora de tres obras de no ficción, El viaje a Echo Spring, La ciudad solitaria y To the River, que han sido traducidas a dieciocho idiomas y se han vendido más de 100.000 copias en todo el mundo. Su primera novela, Crudo, fue bestseller del Sunday Times y ganó el premio James Tait Memorial de 2019. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y en 2018 recibió el premio Windham-Campbell de no ficción. Laing escribe sobre arte y cultura para distintos medios, entre los que destacan The Guardian, The New York Times y Frieze. Su recopilación de escritos sobre arte, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, se publicó en 2020. Vive en Suffolk.