Michael Snow : Cover to cover.

Type:

boek

Titel:

Michael Snow : Cover to cover.

Jaar:

2020

Onderwerp:

Snow, Michael
Kunstgeschiedenis: 20ste eeuw
Kunstenaarsboek, Speciale edities, Beperkte oplage

Taal:

Engels

Uitgever:

New York : Primary Information, 2020

Plaatsnummer:

7.039 / SNOW M. / 2020 (Kunstenbibliotheek)

ISBN:

9781734489712

Paginering:

ongepag. : ill.

Editie:

edition of 2500

Samenvatting:

For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow has remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Snow himself has called the piece “a quasi-movie,” structured around a precise recto-verso montage. Each page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting, for instance, between interior and exterior spaces. This organizing principle is complicated by the fact that a given image might be a depiction of the physical environment surrounding the camera or, at other times, a photograph of a photograph. Midway through, the scene is inverted such that the volume must be turned upside-down to be looked at right-side up. The result is an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity that allows the viewer to enter the work from either end.

Nota:

boek

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