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Look here, look away, look again /

"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, ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carson, Edward, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Copyright; 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 Songat 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 BirdWomen 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 Flockof Birds Emerges From a Dark WoodThe salvator mundi's Ghost Emergesas 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 Ladderin 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 LieEscher 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 VaRiantsMother well'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 WeSee When We Look at a Painting; Coda; Thanks & Notes