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All the more real / by Falkenberg, Merrill.(CARDINAL)283199; Fischl, Eric,1948-(CARDINAL)178638; Parrish Art Museum.(CARDINAL)142364;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Human beings in art; Portraits; Children in art; Intimacy (Psychology) in art; Empathy in art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pop song : adventures in art and intimacy / by Pham, Larissa,author.(CARDINAL)857515;
On running -- Blue -- Body of work -- Crush -- Camera roll (notes on longing) -- Haunted -- What we way without saying -- Dark vessel -- Ways of knowing when it's time to go -- Breakup interludes -- On being alone.Includes bibliographical references.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 pages, 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's description.
Subjects: Essays.; Intimacy (Psychology); Art appreciation.; Travel.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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A month in Siena / by Matar, Hisham,1970-author.(CARDINAL)481640;
Duccio's door -- The shape of a room -- A landing place -- David and Goliath -- Armor, what armor? -- The bench -- Evidence -- The museum guards -- The blue ribbon -- Taking a seat -- The problem with faith -- The fire -- Il bagno turco -- The angel's predicament -- Paradise."After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he has had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Complete with gorgeous full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in Matar's life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with the city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape--current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude--and shed further light on the present world around us"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Matar, Hisham, 1970-; Matar, Hisham, 1970-; Authors, American; Art; Painting, Italian;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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In praise of profanity / by Adams, Michael,1961-author.(CARDINAL)459191;
"When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still labeled as rude, or at best tolerable only under specific circumstances. Cursing, many argue, signals an absence of character, or poor parenting, and is something to avoid at all costs. Yet plenty of us are unconcerned about the dangers of profanity; bad words are commonly used in mainstream music, Academy Award-winning films, books, and newspapers. And of course, regular people use them in conversation every day. In In Praise of Profanity, Michael Adams offers a provocative, unapologetic defense of profanity, arguing that we've oversimplified profanity by labeling it as taboo. Profanity is valuable, even essential, both as a vehicle of communication and an element of style. As much as we may deplore it in some contexts, we should celebrate it in others. Adams skillfully weaves together linguistic and psychological analyses of why we swear-for emotional release, as a way to promote group solidarity, or to create intimate relationships -- with colorful examples of profanity in literature, TV, film, and music, such as The Sopranos, James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late, or the songs of Nellie McKay. This breezy, jargon-free book will challenge readers to reconsider the way they think about swearing"--Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: English language; English language; Swearing.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Lessons of lifelong intimacy : building a stronger marriage without losing yourself--the 9 principles of a balanced and happy relationship / by Gurian, Michael.(CARDINAL)368608;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index.Introduction: The Surprising Secret of Love -- Part I The Secret to Real Love -- Chapter 1: The Intimate Separateness Paradigm -- Chapter 2: Becoming the Scientist of Your Own Marriage -- Chapter 3: Relationship Wisdom from Both Women and Men -- Chapter 4: Living All Twelve Stages of Love Successfully -- Part II Practicing the Art of Intimate Separateness -- Chapter 5: Ending Power Struggle in Your Relationship -- Chapter 6: Practicing Initmate Separateness for Life -- Chapter 7 : The Powerful Lessons of Affairs and Infidelity -- Chapter 8: Busting Through the Myths of Marriage -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Personality Mapping -- Appendix II: The 9 Principles of a Balanced and Happy Relationship -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index."Michael Gurian offers a groundbreaking plan for couples seeking to build a healthy relationship, work through past hurts, and create greater intimacy. Become separate from your partner yet also become closer--sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? With twenty-five years of family and marital counseling practice, Michael Gurian shows that "intimate separateness" is the key to creating a healthy partnership in life. Recent university studies show that the most frequent reason relationships dissolve is not abuse, alcoholism, money, or even infidelity, but rather a lack of emotional fulfillment. Most books on love and marriage focus on teaching communication and conflict skills, but neglect to help couples with the "other half" of intimacy--separateness. In this practical yet personal guide to love, Gurian details the benefits of creating a lifelong balance of closeness and separateness. He outlines a twelve-stage model created for his own private practice, which provides long-term goals and focal points for dialogue that can help couples work through arguments. Gurian also delves into differences in white and gray matter between the male and female brain (which may explain the varying needs for intimacy and separateness), differences in verbal- emotive development, and the effects these all have on relationships. Rich with examples and case studies, this book presents strategies for communication and conflict that build more emotional balance, while showing how intimate separateness can be the key to lifelong happiness"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Marital quality.; Intimacy (Psychology); Married people; Interpersonal conflict.; Interpersonal relations.; Marriage; Married people.; Marriage.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Fighting for our friendships : the science and art of conflict and connection in women's relationships / by Jackson, Danielle Bayard,author.(CARDINAL)896967;
"Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's cooperation and communication, while sharing practical strategies to preserve and strengthen these relationships. Fighting for Our Friendships is one part textbook, one part handbook. Readers will not only learn what the latest research has to say about the mechanics of women's friendships, but they'll walk away with real-life solutions for the most common conflicts that arise in their platonic relationships. Using a combination of psychology, science, narrative, and a few of the author's signature scripts and out-of-the-box exercises, readers will learn: the three 'affinities' that bring women together (and tear them apart), scripts to navigate nine of the most challenging 'friend types' (and how to know which one you are), the covert strategies women use to hurt each other (and how to avoid them), how to have a hard conversation with a friend (without losing the friendship), surprising ways that women's people-pleasing delays platonic intimacy (and how to stop it), how to know if a friendship is worth saving (and what to do to recover), and how to make (and deepen!) connections with other women. In a time when we are often encouraged to opt out of friendships at any sign of friction, Danielle Bayard Jackson is showing us how to opt in." --
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Female friendship.; Friendship.; Interpersonal relations.; Women's friendships.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Talking about death / by Morris, Virginia.;
Subjects: Death;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Dept. of speculation / by Offill, Jenny,1968-(CARDINAL)655199;
"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Marriage; Families; Marriage.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 18
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Succulent wild love : six powerful habits for feeling more love more often / by Sark,1954-author.(CARDINAL)371121; Waddell, John,1948-(CARDINAL)410889;
Includes bibliographical references."Succulent Wild Love by SARK and Dr. John Waddell is a truly revolutionary book about expanding the love in your life and having the skills and tools to keep love flowing. Everyone wants to feel more love more often. This book shows you exactly how to do that and keep doing it. For years SARK has filled her cup of self-love and shared the overflow with others. Through SARK's vulnerability, insight and colorful out-of-any-box explorations in books such as Succulent Wild Woman, Transformation Soup and Eat Mangoes Naked, readers have been inspired to accept and love themselves. From that foundation, SARK is now expanding her self-love capacities to include a deep, intimate relationship with another. This book shares her transformative journey and shows readers how they can do the same with the significant others in their lives. For much of her life SARK feared committing to a life partnership, even as she was looking for ever more expansive ways to share her love. In this book, with delightful art and sharing intimate experiences, SARK illuminates the fears and obstacles that kept her--and keep many others--from living happily in intimate partnerships. Using stories of transformation and practical advice, SARK and her partner, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher Dr. John Waddell, present six simple but profound habits that will empower readers to keep their relationships harmonious--and from that foundation, help them experience more love more often. Rather than emphasizing finding the right partner, Succulent Wild Love focuses on being the right partner. If you are looking for someone to make you happy, they will always fall short. If you are looking for someone with whom to share your happiness, you will always have enough. Succulent Wild Love is an inviting book that is both practical and magical, filled with effective guidelines and SARK creativity. There are real-life, insightful stories and innovative ways for the reader to play and practice, SARK's trademark poetry and art, along with the logical psychological principles that Dr. Waddell provides. This combination reminds readers that they already are Succulent, Wild and Loving -- and can experience feeling that way more often"--
Subjects: Man-woman relationships.; Intimacy (Psychology); Mate selection.; Couples.; Interpersonal attraction.; Love.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The big disconnect : the story of technology and loneliness / by Slade, Giles.(CARDINAL)476856;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Immortality and Free Will.-- Breadcrumbs. Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars. -- Wired for Sound. Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening. -- Trusting Machines. Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin -- Machines as Friends.Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. According to recent surveys, at any given moment, sixty million Americans, 20 percent of the population, feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. Have we arrived at a new kind of consciousness in which electronic interfaces receive most of our attention to the detriment of real interpersonal communication and empathy? In this book the author offers a bracing look at an America where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. In a sweeping overview that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the present, he reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that ameliorated the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship in contemporary America. Mining insights from neuroscience, the author delves deeply into the history of this transformation, showing why Americans use certain technologies to mediate their connections with other human beings instead of seeking out face-to-face contacts. In a final investigative section, he describes ways in which some people are bucking the trend by consciously including interpersonal strategies that build empathy, community, and mutual acceptance. This interdisciplinary synthesis provides many insights into our increasingly artificial relationships and a vision of how we can rediscover genuine community and human empathy.
Subjects: Household electronics; Human-machine systems.; Technology;
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