Michael Snow / edited by Annette Michelson and Kenneth White.

Title & Author:

Michael Snow / edited by Annette Michelson and Kenneth White.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

October files ; 24

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works in a range of media-film, installation, video, painting, sculpture, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music-address the fundamental properties of his materials, the conditions of perception and experience, questions of authorship in technologically reproducible media, and techniques of translation through written and pictorial representation. His film Wavelength (1967) is a milestone of avant-garde cinema and possibly the most frequently discussed "structural" film ever made. This volume collects essential texts on Snow's work, with essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. From its earliest issues, October has been a primary interlocutor of Snow's work, and many of these texts first appeared in its pages. Written by such distinguished critics and scholars as Annette Michelson, Hubert Damisch, and Malcolm Turvey, they document Snow's participation in postwar discourses of minimalism, postminimalism, photo-conceptualism, and avant-garde cinema, and examine particular works. Thierry de Duve's essay on linguistics in Snow's work appears alongside Snow's response. The volume also includes other writings by Snow, images from his 1975 work Musics for Piano, Whistling, Microphone, and Tape Recorder, and an interview with the artist conducted by Annette Michelson.

ISBN:

9780262043021 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0262043025 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780262537728 paperback ; alkaline paper
0262537729 paperback ; alkaline paper

Subject:

Snow, Michael, 1928-2023 Aesthetics.
Snow, Michael, 1928- Esthétique.
Snow, Michael, 1928-2023
Snow, Michael 1928-2023
Snow, Michael, 1928- Aesthetics.
Snow, Michael, 1928- Interviews.
Aesthetics
Experimentalfilm

Added entries:

Michelson, Annette, editor.
White, Kenneth (Kenneth Allan), editor.
October files ; 24.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306927
Call No.: BIB 252470
Status: Available

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