The Reddest Rose Romantic Love from the LIV Strömquist Paperback

Description: Title: The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV Author: Str̦mquist, LIV Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Binding: Paperback Pages: 184 Dimensions: 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.70d Product Weight: 1.05 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781683964599 The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Str̦mquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something 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 Beyonc̩, conceptualized romantic love. Str̦mquist's signature characters, drawn in a 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 Zizek, Lou Andreas-Salom̩, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Str̦mquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive? Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer Stock Photo - Actual Cover May Vary {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}

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