OCT221648 - EAN
The internationally acclaimed activist follows up her satirical work of graphic medicine with this collection of humorous comics essays about how historical and societal shifts have altered - and perhaps destroyed - 'romantic love.' The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of twentysomething models? Her answer - in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays - tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature interlocutor characters, drawn in a zine-y, flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle - who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension - lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Žižek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others make cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive? (immagine)
Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 28/10/22
By Stromquist, Liv. Artist Stromquist, Liv. Cover by Stromquist, Liv.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 24,99
Prezzo HoVistoCose: EUR 22,55
Altri dettagli per materiale USA
Pagina del Previews (OCT/2022): 313
Data di uscita: 01/02/23 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
Final Order Cutoff: 28/10/22 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
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