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Figuring redemption : resighting my self in the art of Michael Snow
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Figuring redemption : resighting my self in the art of Michael Snow

Author: Tila Landon Kellman
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Paper edView all editions and formats
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"This book explores how the visual art practice of Michael Snow asks the question Who? of the viewers as they interpret what lies before them. Much criticism of Snow objectively analyzes the material interrelationships in his work, ignoring viewer participation, and implicitly giving the artist control of the view. However, what if the "who" is addressed from the perspective of the viewer who is looking across a gap  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kellman, Tila Landon, 1943-
Figuring redemption.
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606914091
Named Person: Michael Snow
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tila Landon Kellman
ISBN: 1554582490 9781554582495
OCLC Number: 655759765
Description: xiv, 207 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Tila L. Kellman.

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Can visual art help redeem one's sense of self, damaged by technological society? Following on writers such as Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, and Paul Ricoeur, this book questions the proposal  Read more...
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