{"product_id":"the-reddest-rose-romantic-love-from-the-ancient-greeks-to-reality-tv-9781683964599","title":"The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): LIV Strömquist\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Nonfiction - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's \u003cem\u003eThe Reddest Rose\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Reddest Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45657240699031,"sku":"9781683964599","price":1701.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781683964599.webp?v=1768600329","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-reddest-rose-romantic-love-from-the-ancient-greeks-to-reality-tv-9781683964599","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}