Snow Scene – Michael Snow in Context Selected Bibliography

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Writings by Michael Snow

Snow, Michael. “A Letter to Thierry de Duve.” Parachute 78 (1995): 63-65.

Snow, Michael. The Michael Snow Project: The Collected Writings of Michael Snow. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1994.

Snow, Michael. Cover to Cover. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design; New York: New York University Press, 1975.

Snow, Michael. High School. Toronto: Impulse Editions and Isaacs Gallery, 1979.

Snow, Michael. “Repeat Offender.” Photo-Communiqué (Fall 1986): 22–29.

Snow, Michael. “Passage in C.” C Magazine (Fall 1993): 29–40.

Snow, Michael. 56 Tree Poems. Ghent, Belgium: Imschoot, uitgevers, 1999.

Snow, Michael. Michael Snow: Des écrits, 1958–2002. Jean-Michel Bouhours and Jacinto Lageira (eds). Paris: Éditions de l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002.

Snow, Michael. Biographie of the Walking Woman / de la femme qui marche, 1961–1967. Brussels: La lettre volée, 2004.

Snow, Michael and Dimple F. Snow. Scraps for the Soldiers. Florence: Zona Archives, 2007.

Snow, Michael. Michael Snow: Sequences: A History of His Art. arcelona: diciones Pol grafa, 2015.

Michael Snow Exhibition Catalogues

The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

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Snow Scene – Michael Snow in Context Selected Bibliography

Shedden, Jim, ed. The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence; The Films of Michael Snow, 1956– 1991. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1995.

Snow, Michael, ed. The Michael Snow Project: Music/Sound, 1948–1993. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

Michael Snow: Panoramique; Oeuvres photographiques & films / Photographic Works & Films, 1962- 1999. ru elles: Soci t des expositions du palais des beaux-arts, 1999.

Snow, Michael, ed. Michael Snow: A Survey. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario and Isaacs Gallery, 1970.

Solo Snow: Oeuvres de / Works of Michael Snow. Montreal: Galerie de l’UQAM; Tourcoing, France: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, 2011.

Dompierre, Louise, ed. Walking Woman Works: Michael Snow, 1961–67; New Representational Art and Its Uses. Kingston, Ont: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1983.

Biographies of Michael Snow

Langford, Martha. Michael Snow: Life & Work. Toronto: Canada Art Institute, 2014

Critical Interpretations of Michael Snow

Arnaud, Jean. “Touching to See.” October 114 (2005): 5–16.

aird, Daniel. “Riffing: Jazz Inspired Michael Snow, the Most Influential Canadian Artist of All Time, to plore the Une plored.” The Walrus, March 2011.

dard, Catherine. “Seeing between the Lines: Imagination, Nothing but ‘This,’ in Ma Dean and Michael Snow.” in Image & Imagination. Martha Langford (ed). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. 201-210.

ellour, Raymond. “Couches d’images.” Cinéma 11 (2006): 101–17.

ullot, rik. “Keaton and Snow.” October 114 (2005): 17–28.

Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs of Michael Snow. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1980.

Duve, Thierry de. “Michael Snow: The Deictics of perience, and eyond.” Parachute 78 (1995): 29–41.

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Fulford, Robert. “Michael Snow.” Canadian Art 18.1 (1961): 46–47.

Iles, Chrissie. Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001.

Judd, Donald. “In the Galleries.” Donald Judd: Complete Writings, 1959–1975. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 2005. 120–123.

Kellman, Tila L. Figuring Redemption: Resighting Myself in the Art of Michael Snow. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.

Langford, Martha. “Snow by Degrees: Michael Snow’s Photographic Work.” Border Crossings 19.3 (2000): 58–63.

–––. “Michael Snow: Reflections at the Speed of Light.” In Michael Snow @ MOCCA 2007. Toronto: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2007.

–––. “Object-Image-Memory.” In Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art, 125–42. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

–––. “Strange edfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists.” Photography & Culture 1.1 (2008): 73–94.

–––. “The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation.” in Depicting Canada’s Children. Loren Lerner (ed). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. 387–413.

–––. “Michael Snow: Screen Writing.” Switch 3 (2010): 8–15.

–––. “Translation, Migration, Fascination: Motion Pictures by Michael Snow.” In Michael Snow: Recent Works. Vienna: Secession, 2012. 29-43.

Legge, lizabeth. “Taking It as Red: Michael Snow and Wittgenstein.” Journal of Canadian Art History 18.2 (1997): 68–88.

–––. Michael Snow: Wavelength. London: Afterall Books; Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009

–––. “Michael Snow’s Films, 1966–1971.” Switch 3 (2010): 6–7.

Locke, John W. “Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale: How You Should Watch the Best Ever Film I Ever Saw.” Artforum 12.3 (1973): 66–71.

Michelson, Annette. “Toward Snow, Part 1.” Artforum 9.10 (1971): 30–37.

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–––. “About Snow.” October 8 (1979): 111–24.

Pontbriand, Chantal. “Plus tard, plus tard … Michael Snow.” Parachute 17 (1979): 49–55.

Riou , Gilles. “Michael Snow: Holographe / Michael Snow: Holographer.” Vie des arts 31.123 (1986): 26– 29.

Rist, Peter, ed. “The Michael Snow Dossier.” Off-Screen 30 (2002).

Roberts, Catsou, and Lucy Steeds. Michael Snow: Almost Cover to Cover. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2001.

Rockman, Arnold. “Michael Snow and His ‘Walking Woman.’” Canadian Art 20.6 (1963): 345–47.

Sitney, P. Adams. “Structural Film.” Film Culture 47 (1969): 1–10.

Sloan, Johanne. “Conceptual Landscape Art: Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow.” in Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art. John O’ rian and Peter White (eds). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. 73-84.

Taubin, Amy. “Doubled Visions.” October 4 (1977): 33–42.

Tomas, David. Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman. New York: Bloomsbury , 2013.

Turvey, Malcolm. “The Child in the Machine: On the Use of CGI in Michael Snow’s *Corpus Callosum.” October 114 (2005): 29-42.

Wees, William C. “Prophecy, Memory and the Zoom: Michael Snow’s Wavelength Reviewed.” Ciné- Tracts 14.15 (1981): 78–83.

Youngblood, Gene. “Icon and Idea in the World of Michael Snow.” artscanada 27 (1970): 2–14.

Interviews with Michael Snow

lder, ruce. “Michael Snow and ruce lder in Conversation.” Ciné-Tracts 17 (1982): 13–23.

nright, Robert. “The Lord of Missed Rules: An Interview with Michael Snow.” Border Crossings 26.2 (2007): 22–40.

Gingras, Nicole, and Michael Snow. “Michael Snow: La permanence de la lumière /Transparency and Light.” Art Press 234 (1998): 20–26.

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MacDonald, Scott. “Michael Snow.” in A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 51-76.

Michelson, Annette. “The Sound of Music: A Conversation with Michael Snow.” October 114 (2005): 43– 60.

Snow, Michael. “Hollis Frampton Interviewed by Michael Snow.” Film Culture (Spring 1970): 6–12.

Works by Federico Windhausen

“The Parenthesis and the Standard: On a Film by Morgan Fisher.” Cinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory. Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

“Paul Sharits and the Active Spectator.” Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader. Tanya Leighton (ed). London: Tate Publishing, 2008.

“Theories of Moving Pictures: Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann.” Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs. Michele Pierson, David E. James, and Paul Arthur (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Works by Malcolm Turvey

Allen, Richard, and Malcolm Turvey (eds). Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts. London: Routledge, 2001.

Andrew, Dudley, Anton Kaes, Sarah Keller, Stuart Liebman, Annette Michelson, and Malcolm Turvey. “Roundtable on the Return to Classical Film Theory.” October 148 (2014): 5-26.

Michelson, Annette, Richard Allen, and Malcolm Turvey. Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

Turvey, Malcolm. “Avant-Garde and the “New Spirit”: The Case of allet M canique.” October 102 (2002): 35-58.

---. “The Child in the Machine: On the Use of CGI in Michael Snow’s *Corpus Callosum.” October 114 (2005): 29-42.

---. “Dada etween Heaven and Hell: Abstraction and Universal Language in the Rhythm Films of Hans Richter.” October 105 (2003): 13-36.

---. Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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---. The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

---. “Ken Jacobs: Digital Revelationist.” October 137 (2011): 107-124.

---. “Vertov, the View from Nowhere, and the panding Circle.” October 148 (2014): 79-102.

Writers Mentioned During the Event

Dale, Alan. Comedy is a Man in Trouble. Minnseapolos: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Michelson, Annette, Douglas Gomery, and Patrick Loughney. The Art of Moving Shadows. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1989.

Peterson, Sidney. A Fly in the Pigment. W.H. Allen, 1963.

---. The Dark of the Screen. New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1980.

Reich, Steve. Writings on Music, 1965-2000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Moving Places: A Life at the Movies. Berkeley: U of California, 1995.

---. Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2010.

Writings about the Avant-Garde, Modernist and Montage Film

Elbeshlawy, Ahmed. America in Literature and Film: Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011.

Graf, Alexander, and Dietrich Scheunemann. Avant-garde Film. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

McCabe, Susan. Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

MacCann, Richard D. Film: A Montage of Theories. New York: Dutton, 1966.

MacDonald, Scott. Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Rohdie, Sam. Montage. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-garde, 1943-2000. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

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