By: Hendrika

Hendrika — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:53:12 +0000

While Michelson’s 1971 essay positioned Snow in the lineage of abstract expressionists, who themselves were influenced by European expressionism and psychoanalysis, a later essay, “Toward Snow” (1978), pushes her analysis further. She asks whether Snow broke with the idea of a “transcendental viewer,” which has haunted art since the Renaissance. Michelson concludes that while a number of experimental filmmakers, such as Stan Brakhage, questioned the primacy of Renaissance perspective, Snow, who began his career as a painter, reaffirmed it. For Snow’s

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By: Hendrika