Strömquist, Liv <br/><br/>
The reddest rose   : romantic love from the ancient Greeks to reality tv  
 Romantic love from the ancient Greeks to reality tv 
/ Liv Strömquist ; translated by Melissa Bowers. 
 - 168 pages :  chiefly illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> 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 Žižek, 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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781683964599 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021935309 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Love--Comic books, strips, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Comics (Graphic works)<br/>Humorous comics.<br/>Nonfiction comics.<br/>Graphic novels.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6790.S883  / S75713 2022