Momento
On Standing in Front of Art
- Publisher
- Gordon Hill Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
- Museum Studies, Essays, Criticism & Theory
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781774220764
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $22.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774220788
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
Why do we stand in front of art and look at it? Why do we go to galleries and museums? What does it feel like? What do you expect to have happen there? How do you feel before you enter, after you leave? What do you do with all your moods, your attentions, your restlessness, your curiosity, your sense of time? How does a visit come to be in the way that a painting comes to be? Does it matter how you begin? Does it matter if you’re ready? Jeffery Donaldson's Momento answers these questions and more by offering a poetic daydream about the curious, otherworldly, but urgent and existential experience of art, artifacts, and the buildings that house them. This little book itself is like a visit to a museum. Enter and wander as you please.
About the author
Jeffery Donaldson is the author of Palilalia, a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Waterglass, and Once out of Nature. He has also the co-editor of Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye. Donaldson teaches poetry and American literature at McMaster University. He lives on the Niagara Escarpment near Grimsby, Ontario.
