{"product_id":"9781683964599","title":"The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: [On Fruit of Knowledge ]: Veers from the educational to the whimsical...--Hillary Chute \"The New York Times\" Review Quotes : If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they're also informative to an eye-popping degree.-- \"The Guardian\" Brief Description : \"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.\"\"-- Review Quotes : A nervy application of social theory that makes for an invigorating primer and a jarring riposte to present-day assumptions on dating, attachment, and the nuclear family.-- \"Publishers Weekly\" Review Quotes : Stromquist didn't make a comic book; she made a journalistic examination with a cartoonist's eye.-- \"AIPT Comics\" Review Quotes : In her feminist, irreverent comics, Strömquist delights in tackling massive (even titanic) topics from surprising angles, educating readers while making them laugh and blush.-- \"Words Without Borders\" Publisher Marketing : 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 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 Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist'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-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose , Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023-01-31\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46477820723331,"sku":"9781683964599","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781683964599.jpg?v=1770300917","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781683964599","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}