"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams,... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the Rogers Centre. And yet, if Snow is a figure of renown in the international art world, it is not for these accessible sculptures but for Wavelength, an experimental film of 1966 that featured a single 45-minute zoom shot. Snow, the Canadian painter,... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the Rogers Centre. And yet, if Snow is a figure of renown in the international art world, it is not for these accessible sculptures but for Wavelength, an experimental film of 1966 that featured a single 45-minute zoom shot. Snow, the Canadian painter, sculptor, filmmaker and jazz musician, was an ever-inventive artist with a long, eclectic career that repeatedly mixed concep... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (69)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Photography in Canada 1960-2000 (National Gallery of Canada)
2017
Kunard, Andrea
175 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
2012
Kennedy, Garry Neill
455 pages (color)
Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America
2012
Markonish, Denise
399 pages (color)
Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto
2010
Warkentin, John
347 pages
Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
2009
Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith
776 pages
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (Lentos Art Museum, LInz, Austria
2009
Rainer, Cosima et al
312 pages (color)
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Sixties in Canada (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Leclerc, Denise; Pierre Dessureault; National Gallery of Canada
188 pages (color)
Isaacs Seen: 50 Years on the Art Front, a Gallery Scrapbook
2005
Wigmore, Donnalu and John Parry
168 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Confluence: Contemporary Canadian Photography (Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography_
2003
Hanna, Martha
74 pages
1953
2003
Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell
94 pages (color)
Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Fiilm in Canada
2001
Hoolboom, Mike
271 pages
Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000 (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
2000
Antaki, Karen
72 pages (color)
Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2000 (The Canada Council, Ottawa)
2000
Clarkson, Adrienne et al
48 pages (color)
Making It New! The Big Sixties Show
2000
McKaskell, Robert
93 pages
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s
1999
Bann, Stephen, et al
279 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery
1999
Garvey, Susan Gibson
50 pages
Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
1998
Farber, Manny
412 pages
Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (Two Volumes)
1997
Lerner, Loren R.
1,820 pages (color)
Censorship and the Arts: Law, Controversy, Debate, Facts (Ontario Association of Art Galleries)
1995
Cossman, Brenda et al
147 pages
Videotexts
1995
Gale, Peggy
154 pages
Sculpture/Toronto: An Illustrated Guide to Toronto's Historic and Contemporary Sculpture with Area Maps
1994
Ardiel, June
147 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes)
1993
Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor
622 pages
Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
1993
Steven, Peter
287 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality
1992
Shaw, Catherine Elliot
59 pages
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Learn to Read Art: Artists; Books (Art Gallery of Hamilton) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Ehrenbert, et al
34 pages (color)
Of Style and Steel
1990
Via Rail Canada, Editor
46 pages
Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
1989
Block, Ursula and Michael Glasmeier
278 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Aurora Borealis (Centre International D'Art Contemporain) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Gosselin, Claude, et al.
176 pages (color)
The Hand Holding the Brush: Self Portraits by Canadian Artists
1983
Stacey, Robert
132 pages
Art in Architecture: Art for the Built Environment in the Province of Ontario
1982
Parkin, Jeanne
276 pages
O Kanada (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stacey, R.H., Barbara Volkmann, Rose-France Raddata
407 pages
Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery)
1982
Young, Jane
32 pages
Realism: Structure & Illusion (Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nasby, David
36 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
1980
Castleman, Riva
144 pages (color)
20th Century Canadian Drawings
1979
Morris, Jerrold
107 pages
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Autobiography: Film, Video, Photography (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)
1978
Katz, John Stuart
96 pages
A Canadian Survey: Selected Works from the Collection of Imperial Oil Limited (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1978
Moses, Gerry
52 pages (color)
Transparent Things: The Artist's Use of the Photograph
1977
James, Geoffrey
56 pages
SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Block, Rene
431 pages
Forum 76 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Rosshandler, Leo and Germain Lefebvre
95 pages
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
The Nude in Canadian Painting
1972
Morris, Jerrold
89 pages (color)
Contemporary Canadian Painting
1972
Withrow, William
224 pages (color)
The Canada Council Collection (National Gallery of Canada)
1969
Thompson, David
64 pages (color)
Sculpture 67 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Cameron, Dorothy, and Don Wallace
115 pages
Canadian Artists 68 (The National Art Exhibition Committee)
1968
Young, Dennis
79 pages
Statements: 18 Canadian Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Curator, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
99 pages
Canadian Prints and Drawings: With a Collection of Photographs by Yousuf Karsh
1967
Fenwick, Kathleen M. and Yousuf Karsh, Roger Duhamel
64 pages
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
Canadian Sculpture: Expo '67
1967
Withrow, William
106 pages
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)