A long-awaited facsimile of Michael Snow's legendary artist's book, a classic of conceptualism For years an out-of-print rarity, Canadian artist, filmmaker and musician Michael Snow's (born 1928) classic 1975 artist's book Cover to Cover is available once again, in this facsimile edition. Unconstrained by discipline, Snow famously 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 ...
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A long-awaited facsimile of Michael Snow's legendary artist's book, a classic of conceptualism For years an out-of-print rarity, Canadian artist, filmmaker and musician Michael Snow's (born 1928) classic 1975 artist's book Cover to Cover is available once again, in this facsimile edition. Unconstrained by discipline, Snow famously 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. Each individual page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting between interior and exterior spaces. Midway through the book, the images are 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. With this work, wrote Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, "Michael Snow has challenged the reader's/viewer's notion of a book, indeed one's very notion of perception."
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Add this copy of Michael Snow: Cover to Cover to cart. $678.00, very good condition, Sold by Inno Dubelaar Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1975 by Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Press.
Publisher:
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Press
Published:
1975
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15391869325
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. First printing, simultaneous with the cloth edition. Co-published with New York University Press. Not paginated, over 300 pp., fully illustrated with black & white photos, matching photowrap softcovers. Printed dos-a-dos, meant to be read from front and back. Internally Nearly Fine with no noticeable wear, no owner's name. Minor wear to extremities, no noticeable creases to front and back panels. One reading crease to spine, as expected. A very attractive copy of this fragile book.
