Dec 12, 2013 - Sale 2335

Sale 2335 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SNOW, MICHAEL.
Cover to Cover.

Photography by Keith Lock. A sequence with 312 full-bleed photographic reproductions. 4to, photo-pictorial cloth. first edition, signed by snow.
Halifax & New York: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and New York University Press, 1975

Additional Details

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.