Michael Snow: Sequences: A History of His Art (Colección 20-21) - Hardcover

Gloria Moure; Essay By Bruce Jenkins; Writings By Michael Snow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8434313529 ISBN 13: 9788434313521

Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa S.A., 2017

Synopsis

• A complete monograph on a fascinating artistic polymath, who says of himself "My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter"

Since his reception of the Independent Film Award (1968) from the journal Film Culture, Michael Snow's work has placed in the ranks of such major figures of avant-garde cinema as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopoulos, as well as in the company of two other artists-turned-filmmakers: the photographer Robert Frank and the painter Andy Warhol.

The image of Michael Snow that emerges from this complete monograph is that of a contemporary Renaissance man. The artist himself captured this diversity in a profile written in the late 1960s: "I am not a professional. My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor - sometimes they all work together."

Mixing reflexive humour with a nuanced grasp of the many faces of contemporary art, Snow's text acknowledges the difficulties an artist faces in approaching different disciplines when there is a tendency towards purity in all these media as separate endeavours. Within a structure of seventeen chapters, Michael Snow makes a complete overview on his own work, writing the texts and laying out each sequence - an editorial task he knows very well, as is evidenced by this beautiful artist's book. Certainly, this is an unsurpassed book about one of our most outstanding artists.

About this title

About the Author

Gloria Moure is an Art Historian and Independent Curator based in Barcelona. She is Associate Editor of Ediciones Polígrafa where she works as the Director of the 20_21 Collection, a series of complete monographs on key contemporary artists. Bruce Jenkins is professor of film, video, new media, and animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Former curator of film/video at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), he is currently working on the catalogue raisonné for the films of Andy Warhol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa S.A.
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8434313529
• ISBN 13: 9788434313521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Gloria Moure