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9. Sequences, 80.
10. Freedman.
11. Robert Fulford, “World of Art: Snowgirl,” Toronto Star, March 17, 1962.
12. “A Lot of Near Mrs.,” in Collected Writings, 19.
13. Fulford, Toronto Star, March 17, 1962.
14. Nowell, 184.
Chapter Ten: Cool City
1. Jed Perl, New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century (New York: Vintage, 2007), 379.
2. Hannon.
3. Michael Snow to Av Isaacs, November 26, 1963, Isaacs archive, York University.
4. Nowell, 192–93; Sequences, 123.
5. Lancashire, 64.
Chapter Eleven: Eye and Ear Control
1. Jonas Mekas, “Movie Journal,” Village Voice, May 2, 1963.
2. P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943–2000, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 160.
3. Leah Sandals, “Déja Viewed: Michael Snow on Looking Back, and Ahead,” Canadian Art (September 2016).
4. Collected Writings, 288.
5. Collected Writings, 25.
6. Michael Snow in conversation with James King, January 24, 2018.
7. hollisframpton.org.uk/bio.htm.
8. A.L. Rees, “Working Both Sides of the Street: Film and Art in Michael Snow,” in Almost, 80.
9. Ibid., 78.
Chapter Twelve: More Snowgirls
1. Marjorie Harris, “The Snow Man’s Woman,” Commentator 8, no. 6 (June 1964), 15–16.
2. Harry Malcolmson, “Art and Artists,” Toronto Telegram, December 24, 1965.
3. Gray.
4. Mays, “Walking Woman Returns,” Globe and Mail, February 11, 1994.
5. Sequences, 82.
6. Isaacs to Snow, October 14, 1963, Isaacs archive, York University.
7. Snow to Isaacs, no date, Isaacs archive.
8. Isaacs to Snow, June 10, 1964, Isaacs archive.
9. Snow to Isaacs, no date, Isaacs archive.
10. Stuart Preston, “Bring the Past to the Bar of the Present,” New York Times, February 2, 1964.
11. Natalie Edgar, “Reviews and Previews: New Names This Month,” Art News 62, no. 10 (February 1964), 18.
12. Emily Genauer and John Gruer, “Art Tour: The Galleries — A Critical Guide,” New York Herald Tribune, February 1, 1964.
13. Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Michael Snow,” Arts Magazine 38 (March 1964), 60–61.
14. Sequences, 85.
15. Collected Writings, 18.
16. Elizabeth Kilbourn, “Snow’s Achievement,” Toronto Star, April 25, 1964.
17. Robert Fulford, “On Art: Some Canadian Painters — Like Michael Snow — Have to Quit Canada,” Maclean’s, March 7, 1965, 55.
18. Jill Johnson, “Reviews and Previews,” Art News 64 (January 1966), 16.
19. Amy Goldin, “In the Galleries: Michael Snow,” Arts Magazine 40 (February 1966), 65.
20. Malcolmson, “Art and Artists,” Toronto Telegram, December 8, 1965.
21. Malcolmson, “Art and Artists,” Toronto Telegram, April 16, 1966.
22. Kay Kritzwiser, “Snow’s Walking Woman Walks Again,” Globe and Mail, April 9, 1966.
23. Almost, 23.
24. Amy Taubin, “Re-viewing Revisions,” Soho Weekly News, May 10, 1979.
25. Mays, “Walking Woman Returns,” Globe and Mail, February 11, 1984.
26. Gray, 29.
Chapter Thirteen: Wavelengths
1. Collected Writings, 288.
2. Ibid., 289.
3. Elizabeth Legge, Wavelength (London: Afterall Books, 2009), 14–15.
4. Michael Snow in conversation with James King, January 12, 2018.
5. Sequences, 123.
6. Publicity blurb, AGO.
7. Hollis Frampton, Artforum, 1970.
8. Photo-Centric, 8.
9. Cornwell, 66–68.
10. As quoted by Cornwell, 66.
Chapter Fourteen: New Surfaces
1. Gene Youngblood, Los Angeles Free Press, 1970.
2. Ibid.
3. Manny Farber, “The Ten Best,” Artforum, 1970.
4. Sequences, 132.
5. P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943–2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 348.
6. Sequences, 337.
7. Ibid., 257.
8. Ibid.
9. John Perrault, “The Act of Seeing,” Village Voice, February 8, 1968.
10. Hilton Kramer, New York Times, February 10, 1968.
Chapter Fifteen: Canadians in Manhattan
1. Lind, 143.
2. Ibid., 156.
3. Ibid., 248.
4. Ibid.
5. Hannon.
6. Snow, interview with King, January 12, 2018.
7. Virginia MacDonnell, “The City of Snow,” Harvest Journal of Creative Culture (Winter 1993–94).
8. Robert Enright, “The Lord of Missed Rules: An Interview with Michael Snow,” Border Crossings 26, no. 2 (May 2007).
9. Nowell, 300.
Chapter Sixteen: The Presence of the Past
1. Survey, 4.
2. Ibid., 127.
3. Ibid., 4.
4. Gene Youngblood, “Icon and Idea in the World of Michael Snow,” artscanada, no. 140–41 (February 1970), 2–14.
5. Ross Mendes, “Thinking Man,” Canadian Forum (April/May 1970), 63.
Chapter Seventeen: The Painterly Photograph
1. Photo-Centric, 59.
2. Ibid., 54.
3. Ibid., 53.
4. “Pierre Théberge: Conversation with Michael Snow,” in Collected Writings, 196.
5. Walter Benjamin, quoted in “The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Second Version,” in Selected Writings, vol. 3, ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge: Harvard, 2002), 104–5.
6. Amy Taubin, “Doubled Visions,” October 4 (Fall 1977), 10.
7. Peter Schjeldahl, “The Content Information,” New York Times, November 26, 1972, 17–18.
8. Sequences, 197.
9. Ibid., 287.
10. John Russell, “Venice Resurgent,” Sunday Times, June 28, 1970.
11. Sequences, 287.
12. Ibid., 181.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 193.
15. Arnaud, 11.
Chapter Eighteen: The Canadian Wilderness
1. Lind, 201.
2. Louis Marcorelles, “Concrete Cinema,” in Living Cinema: New Directions in Contemporary Film-Making (New York: Praeger, 1973).
3. Annette Michelson, “About Snow,” October 8 (Spring 1979), 120.
4. Sequences, 214.
5. Ben Lifson, “Ménage à Trois,” Village Voice, July 4–14, 1981.
6. Adele Freedman, “High School a Snow Job from Snow,” Globe and Mail, December 15, 1979.
Chapter Nineteen: A Giant Sentence
1. Sequences, 139.
2. Martha Langford, “Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot, 1972–74,” Michael Snow: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2014), online book, aci-iac.ca/art-books/michael-snow/key-works/rameaus-nephew-by-diderot.
3. Cornwell, 130.
4. Bill Auchterlone, “Review — Artfilms,” Arts Magazine (October 1975), 1.
5. Cornwell, 123.
6. Art Perry, “Sculptors Add Another Dimension to Art,” Vancouver Province, January 19, 1978, 23.
Chapter Twenty: No Longer in Play
1. “The Artists’ Jazz Band Live at the Edge,” in Collected Writings, 182.
2. Snow, interview with Jane Lind, April 13, 1999.
3. Hannon.
4. Nowell, 358–59.
5. Nowell, 405–8.
Chapter Twenty-One: Between Alchemy and Chemistry
1. “Pierre Théberge: Conversation with Michael Snow,” in Collected Writings, 196.
2. In the catalogue to his exhibition at Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris.
3. Michael Snow in conversation with James King, January 24, 2018.
4. Kate Taylor, �
�Art About,” Globe and Mail, May 10, 1991.
5. Lisa Balfour Brown, “Is Flurry Over Artist Snow Deserved?,” Financial Post, January 22, 1994.
6. Christopher Hume, “Snow’s Back and in Good Humour,” Toronto Star, May 18, 1991.
7. Freedman.
8. Sequences, 147.
9. Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Everyday
1. Peggy Gale, interview with James King, August 20, 2017.
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Presence of the Absent
1. Sequences, 245.
2. Ibid.
3. Mays, Globe and Mail, August 20, 1987.
4. René Blouin, “Ghost Lustres: Michael Snow’s Holographic Visions at Expo 86,” Canadian Art (Summer 1986), 57.
5. Exhibition notes by MS for the exhibition at Isaacs in October–November 1987. MS: AGO.
6. Sarah Milroy, “Forecast: Snow,” Globe and Mail, September 26, 2006.
7. Sequences, 260.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Martha Baillie, “Michael Snow and Helplessness,” marthabaillie.ca (blog), February 25, 2013.
11. Sequences, 260.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Audiences
1. Beverly Bowen, Toronto Star, March 22, 1980.
2. Michael Snow, “Snow’s Flock Isn’t Moulting,” Toronto Star.
3. Note written for James King on January 24, 2018.
4. Sequences, 338.
5. Christopher Hume, “The Audience Pokes Fun at Fans,” Toronto Star, May 23, 1989.
6. Christopher Hume, “A Chance to Measure Snow’s Depth,” Toronto Star, March 13, 1994.
7. Adele Freedman, “Less Than Meets the Eye,” Globe and Mail, September 19, 1992.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Blockbuster
1. Deirdre Hanna, “Michael Snow: Goosing the Mainstream,” NOW 13, no. 27 (March 3–8, 1994), 24.
2. John Bentley Mays, “The Real Diamonds Get Snowed Under,” Globe and Mail, March 12, 1994.
3. Time, April 25, 1994.
Chapter Twenty-Six: Sound Shaping
1. Hannon.
2. Michael Snow: note written for James King, January 24, 2018.
3. Sequences, 179.
4. Ibid., 308.
5. Ibid.
6. Hannon.
7. Michael Snow, album cover.
8. Sequences, 318.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A New Painterliness
1. Sequences, 123.
2. Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Repeat Offences
1. Sequences, 221.
2. Michael Snow, Photo Communiqué (Spring 1987), 3.
3. Ibid., 44.
4. Sequences, 289.
5. Touching, 7.
6. Taubin, “Re-viewing Revisions,” Soho Weekly News, May 10, 1979.
7. Jonathan Crary, review of Re-Visions, Flash Art 92–3 (October–November 1979), 22.
8. John Locke, review of Re-Visions, Parachute 16 (Fall 1979), 54.
9. Touching, 7.
10. Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Reshaping Fragments
1. Sequences, 151.
2. Almost, 131.
3. Ibid., 139.
4. Baird.
5. Emily Landau, “The Amazing Adventures of Michael Snow: An Uncensored History of Toronto’s Most Notorious Art Star,” Toronto Life, March 2013.
6. Photo-Centric, 14.
Chapter Thirty: New-Found Things
1. Sequences, 168.
2. Ibid., 177.
Chapter Thirty-One: Smoke and Mirrors
1. Photo-Centric, 15.
2. Sequences, 210–11.
3. Christopher Dewdney, “Review of Michael Snow at the Isaacs Gallery,” Vanguard, February 1983, 36.
4. Convocation Address, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, April 2016.
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