Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow:
essays and interviews spanning more than four decades.
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.
**Essays and interviews
**Jean Arnaud, Érik Bullot, Hubert Damisch, Thierry de Duve, Andrée
Hayum, Annette Michelson, Michael Snow, Amy Taubin, Malcolm Turvey,
Kenneth White
