Look here, look away, look again / Edward Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Edward, 1948- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Poetry.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded // A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question those viewing it are asking themselves. From the intimate starting point of observer and observed, Carson's seductive, exhilarating new collection turns poetry and paintings, making and representation, language and thought on their heads.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Pattern Recognition

Some Assembly Required

Agapanthus Triptych

Look Here

Look Away

Look Again

Constellations

Sunrise

The Escape Ladder

People at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails

Women on the Beach

Woman with Blond Armpit Combing Her Hair by the Light of the Stars

Morning Star

Wounded Figure

Woman and Birds

Woman in the Night

Acrobatic Dancers

The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and Morning Rain

On the 13th the Ladder Brushed the Firmament

Nocturne

The Poetess

Awakening in the Early Morning

Toward the Rainbow

Women Encircled by the Flight of a Bird

Women at the Edge of the Lake Made Iridescent by the Passage of a Swan

The Migratory Bird

Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman

The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers

The Pink Dusk Caresses the Sex of Women and Birds

The Passage of the Divine Bird

Confluence

Triptych with Swallows and Blossoming Lilies Survives a Volcano 1650–1550 BC

541 Million Years Ago the Cambrian Explosion Spawns a Eukaryotic Cell

A Bird's Eye View (in Proportion) of Vitruvian Man Laid Flat on His Back

Flying Away in Fear a Startled Flock of Birds Emerges From a Dark Wood

The Salvator Mundi's Ghost Emerges as Neural Networks Rework the Mind

The Constellations of Abstract Art Consolidate as History in a Hurry

From the Centre the Artist Views the Figure Of The Heavenly Bodies

Trajectory of an Escape Ladder in a Night Flight to the Pleiades

A Girl and Pearl and a Turban Capture the Viewer's Attention

A Hue and Cry in a Drove of Birds Has a Habit of Tumbling Out of Us

Giacometti's Fascination with the Gaze in Portraits that Take the Place of the Person

An Art of Resemblance as Exact Resemblance is No Ordinary Lie

Escher Landscape with Flight of Stairs Leading Every Which Way

We Are Who We Are When We Are Is How We Will Eventually Appear

Woman 1 Emerges with Its Correct Allotment of Four Anatomical Parts

The STRING of Information Plots the Genome of Escape and Return

“You Look Out at the World with One Eye and into Yourself with the Other”

When Exuberance of the Whole is at Odds with the Sum of Its Parts

What Demoiselles Said to the Viewer upon Seeing the Painting Completed

Convergence of the Unobserved in a SPlicing-based ANalysis of vaRiants

Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic is Time Repeating Itself

Attacking the Canvas Seemed Like One of the Better Ideas at the Time

How in Unguarded Moments We See When We Look at a Painting

Coda

Thanks & Notes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773557666

0773557660

9780773557659

0773557652

OCLC:

1080642077