Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
發表於2024-11-21
The Lonely City 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
無論生活在紐約、巴黎、東京,還是逃不掉的北上廣,我們總能在生機勃勃又人滿為患的城市中感受到孤獨。 一個人走過喧囂的十字路口,一個人塞著耳機擠進通勤地鐵,一個人從狹小的房間醒來、默默看著窗外泛白的晨光……即使置身熱鬧的聚會,也會在人群中一瞬間感到內心的清冷。 ...
評分雖然有些冗長,像是文獻,但耐心咀嚼,對培養藝術感官的敏感度還是非常受益的。書中以四位不同領域的“大師”為論證背景,對其生活、性格、藝術形式等進行剖析,彰顯不同層次、維度、行為的孤獨,挖掘每個人怪癖的一麵。同時,以與其對應的繪畫、圖像處理、攝影、小說四種藝術...
評分孤獨是一種主觀自覺與他人或社會隔離與疏遠的感覺和體驗,而非客觀狀態;是一個人生存空間和生存狀態的自我封閉,孤獨的人會脫離社會群體而生活在一種消極的狀態之中。 這個是百度百科對於孤獨的定義,總難免會想到冰冷、無情,不給一點喘息的機會!像個冷酷的仲裁者,沒有一點...
評分本書作者孤身一人居住在紐約這座玻璃牢籠般的城市中時,一種密感的缺失狀態促使她不斷地追問孤獨的本質。她從數名具有代錶性的當代藝術傢為切入點,以用一種自然流動的敘事方式,將愛德華·霍珀、安迪·沃霍爾、亨利·達戈、大衛·沃納洛維奇等當代藝術傢的生平與自己的反思渾...
評分孤獨?我不信。即便是一個人吃飯,也有網劇和綜藝節目作陪;即便是一個人旅行,也能被隨時彈齣的群聊消息所打擾;即便是一個人睡覺,還有青蛙可以看兩眼,再截個屏,曬個圖,撒嬌兩句。孤獨?糟心還來不及呢。 人們似乎很難承認自己孤獨,因為承認太殘酷。如果碰巧遇上一個沒電...
圖書標籤: 藝術 城市 孤獨 loneliness nyc English 非虛構 曆史
非常絲絲入扣的審視,久違的入骨,因此而認識或進一步認識瞭Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Solanas, Henry Darger, David Wojnarowitz等等,幸甚至哉。有機會要再讀一遍中文版。
評分在Portland的Powell's Books找到這本書的時候欣喜若狂,也因為這本書重新審視瞭孤獨這個話題。
評分在Portland的Powell's Books找到這本書的時候欣喜若狂,也因為這本書重新審視瞭孤獨這個話題。
評分非常絲絲入扣的審視,久違的入骨,因此而認識或進一步認識瞭Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Solanas, Henry Darger, David Wojnarowitz等等,幸甚至哉。有機會要再讀一遍中文版。
評分I have mixed feelings about her writing. A lovely selection of artists, though, and I'm glad I read it when I was also reading AIDS activism texts, when Andy Warhol was on exhibit at the Art Institute, when I could take the Blue Line to Intuit and look at a replication of Henry Darger's room.
The Lonely City 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載