Michael snow

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In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, artist Michael Snow chose not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight-line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising sine wave. In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called ''4 human events'': a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Beatles' ''Strawberry Fields'' on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting the dead man (''And he doesn't look drunk, he looks dead.''). Wavelength won the grand prize for experimental film at Knokke-le-Zoute in 1967, and it was crucial to critics' efforts to establish a vocabulary for temporal art. It was a ''wavelength'' that could stand up to the French new wave, and it has has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 oktober 2009

Aantal pagina's: 112

Hoofdauteur: Elizabeth Legge

Hoofduitgeverij: Afterall Publishing

Editie: 1

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 10 mm

Verpakking lengte: 213 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 408 g

EAN: 9781846380556

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