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Pham, Larissa.
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Intimacy (Psychology)
Art appreciation.
Art and society.
Travel.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Pham, Larissa.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Art appreciation.
Art and society.
Travel.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Pop song : adventures in art and intimacy /
Larissa
Pham
.
by
Pham
,
Larissa
.
Catapult, 2021.
Call #:
814.6 P534p
Subjects
Intimacy (Psychology)
Art appreciation.
Art and society.
Travel.
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781646220267 (hc)
Description:
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Like a song that feels written just for you,
Larissa
Pham
's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love -- with a place, or a painting, or a person -- and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss -- from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde --
Pham
writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond,
Pham
meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these p., but
Pham
's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness.-- Publisher.
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