James King 
Michael Snow [EPUB ebook] 
Lives and Works

An all-encompassing view of the life and work of one of Canada’s greatest living artists



Michael Snow is rightly recognized as one of the greatest Canadian artists. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres and media, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important questions in the history of art. During his lifetime, the notion of what constitutes a work of art has undergone many changes, and his work has consistently been at the forefront of that discussion.




Michael Snow: Lives and Works examines all aspects of the artist’s work and provides a guide to understanding its subtleties and complexities. The book also charts the life of Snow: his early years as a student and artist in Toronto, his stay in New York City, his turbulent marriage to Joyce Wieland, his reputation as a lady’s man, and his adventures in movie making and improvised music.



In many ways, Snow is the visual artist as intellectual: his images are vibrant and compelling, but so are the ideas behind them. Ultimately, his work is about perception. What do we really see when we look at a work of art? What is the act of looking all about? What exactly is a work of art?




Michael Snow: Lives and Works is a personal and intimate portrait of an artist who has helped shaped the face of Canadian art in our time.

Содержание

List of Figures

Introduction




Part One 1928–1962

One: Origins

Two: Conversion

Three: Jazz Band

Four: A Man Drawing Lines

Five: Intimations

Six: Gestures

Seven: Drawn Out

Eight: A Lot of Near Mrs.

Nine: Surveying




Part Two 1962–1970

Ten: Cool City

Eleven: Eye and Ear Control

Twelve: More Snowgirls

Thirteen: Wavelengths

Fourteen: New Surfaces

Fifteen: Canadians in Manhattan




Part Three 1970–1979

Sixteen: The Presence of the Past

Seventeen: The Painterly Photograph

Eighteen: The Canadian WIlderness

Nineteen: A Giant Sentence

Twenty: No Longer in Play




Part Four 1979–1994

Twenty-One: Between Alchemy and Chemistry

Twenty-Two: The Everyday

Twenty-Three: The Presence of the Absent

Twenty-Four: Audiences




Part Five 1994–Present

Twenty-Five: Blockbuster

Twenty-Six: Sound Shaping

Twenty-Seven: A New Painterliness

Twenty-Eight: Repeat Offences

Twenty-Nine: Reshaping Fragments

Thirty: New-Found Things

Thirty-One: Smoke and Mirrors



Acknowledgements

Short-Titles

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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James King is the author of six novels and ten biographies, including books on David Milne, William Blake, Margaret Laurence, Jack Mc Clelland, Farley Mowat, and Lawren Harris. His biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern, was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, James lives in Hamilton, Ontario.