Pop Song : Adventures in Art and Intimacy Hardback
by Larissa Pham
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Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book'...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me.
How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a person? This idea points to a knowledge that I don't have: how to love without losing the self.'Plumbing the well of culture for clues about love and loss - from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde - this brilliant work of debut nonfiction explores the state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person.
Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and restlessness.
Pop Song is a book about distances: the miles we travel to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Here is a map to all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:08/07/2021
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- ISBN:9781788168021
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:08/07/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788168021