a| 9781734489712

a| HG

a| 7.039 2| KASK

a| Michael Snow : Cover to cover.

a| edition of 2500

a| New York : b| Primary Information, c| 2020.

a| ongepag. : ill.

a| 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.

a| Snow, Michael

a| Kunstgeschiedenis: 20ste eeuw

a| Kunstenaarsboek, Speciale edities, Beperkte oplage

a| boek

b| KASK c| KUB j| 7.039 / SNOW M. / 2020 p| 000050620613

a| boek