Lonely City. Exercises in the Art of Solitude

At thirty years, having moved to New York due to a romantic relationship, Olivia Lang eventually found herself alone in a huge alien city. This most important life experience fascinated her more and more, and she began to explore the lonely city through art. Having analyzed the cases of Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Claus Nomi, Henry Darger and David Voilovich, the illustrious essay and the critic studies exercises in the art of loneliness, analyzes his images and socio-psychological nature of alienation. Human, daring and deeply penetrated
"Lonely city" - a book about the spaces between people, about things that connect people, about sexuality, morality and miraculous possibilities of art. This is a study of an unknown and enchanting state, divorced from the vast mainland of human life experience, but deeply inherent in life as such