{"product_id":"9781846380563","title":"Michael Snow: Wavelength","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated study of Michael Snow's \"zoom film,\" which has become a touchstone for art and film studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, artist Michael Snow chose not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight-line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising sine wave. In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called \"4 human events\": a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Beatles' \"Strawberry Fields\" on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting the dead man (\"And he doesn't look drunk, he looks dead.\"). Wavelength won the grand prize for experimental film at Knokke-le-Zoute in 1967, and it was crucial to critics' efforts to establish a vocabulary for temporal art. It was a \"wavelength\" that could stand up to the French new wave, and it has has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043277488368,"sku":"9781846380563","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846380563_p0.jpg?v=1763745211","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846380563","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}