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Actions		Cover to Cover Remove from selection Add to selection Object number1976.0269 TitleCover to Cover Creator Michael Snow (vervaardiger)‎, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (uitgever)‎ DescriptionConceptual artist Michael Snow here presents an intriguing artist's book that engages with and questions the nature of photographic veracity and the legibility of surfaces--a stance that is somewhat akin to the work of his contemporaries Kenneth Josephson, Robert Cumming and Duane Michals. As its title implies, Cover to Cover, which contains no text save the colophon, can be read forwards and backwards, with both sections converging towards the center. Both the front and back covers are illustrated with a detailed photograph of a wood-paneled door, and as the reader progresses through the pages, which unfold as a quasi-cinematic non-linear narrative, a succession of full-bleed images leads into and through spaces and surfaces that continuously vacillate between illusory physical and representational existence. The appearance of figures, cameras, images within images, blank sheets of paper, windows and doorways on each page enacts a slippage that renders the photographic images and their referents unstable. The result is an important book that is difficult to put down, challenging readers to read and reread its imagery almost compulsively. Physical descriptionn.b.: dit exemplaar in "slappe" omslag, ook verkrijgbaar in "stijve" omslag Production date 1975 Production period20e eeuw Object namekunstenaarsboeken Object categorykunstenaarsboeken Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt Techniqueoffsetdrukken Dimensions hoogte: 22.60 cm breedte: 17.70 cm pagina-aantal: 316.00

Object number1976.0269

TitleCover to Cover

Creator Michael Snow (vervaardiger)‎, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (uitgever)‎

DescriptionConceptual artist Michael Snow here presents an intriguing artist's book that engages with and questions the nature of photographic veracity and the legibility of surfaces--a stance that is somewhat akin to the work of his contemporaries Kenneth Josephson, Robert Cumming and Duane Michals. As its title implies, Cover to Cover, which contains no text save the colophon, can be read forwards and backwards, with both sections converging towards the center. Both the front and back covers are illustrated with a detailed photograph of a wood-paneled door, and as the reader progresses through the pages, which unfold as a quasi-cinematic non-linear narrative, a succession of full-bleed images leads into and through spaces and surfaces that continuously vacillate between illusory physical and representational existence. The appearance of figures, cameras, images within images, blank sheets of paper, windows and doorways on each page enacts a slippage that renders the photographic images and their referents unstable. The result is an important book that is difficult to put down, challenging readers to read and reread its imagery almost compulsively.

Physical descriptionn.b.: dit exemplaar in "slappe" omslag, ook verkrijgbaar in "stijve" omslag

Production date 1975

Production period20e eeuw

Object namekunstenaarsboeken

Object categorykunstenaarsboeken

Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt

Techniqueoffsetdrukken

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