Michael Snow

Lot 185: SNOW, MICHAEL. Cover to Cover.

Name: SNOW, MICHAEL. Cover to Cover.
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: msundvzijt

Est: $800 USD - $1,200 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USMay 15, 2008

Item Overview

Description

SNOW, MICHAEL. Cover to Cover. Photography by Keith Lock. A sequence with 312 full-bleed photographic reproductions. 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers, small crease on front cover; with an embossed hand stamp, a few leaves crimped at far edge. first edition, signed by snow. Halifax & New York: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and New York University Press, 1975

Artist or Maker

Michael Snow

Condition Report

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Notes

Michael Snow, a conceptual artist and film-maker, produced "Cover to Cover" as an artist's book. It contains no text except the colophon and 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 shift between illusory physical and representational existence. A tour-de-force by a contemporary of Robert Cumming and John Baldessari.

Auction Details

PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHS

Swann Auction Galleries

May 15, 2008, 10:30 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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