An all-encompassing view of the life and work of one of Canada’s greatest living artistsMichael Snow is rightly recognized as one of the greatest Canadian artists. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres and media, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important questions in the history of art. During his lifetime, the notion of what constitutes a work of art has undergone many changes, and his work has consistently bee...

Liverpool born and bred, Michael Snow has been around the music game for fifty years, as a touring and studio musician, songwriter, recording artist, producer, arranger and publishing executive. From frontroom boy on the stages of Europe, to backroom boy in the studios of London and Nashville, Michael has been around the block more than once, and has the stories to prove it. "Mersey Me!" will give you a "fly on the wall" perspective of that unique time in Britain when the birth of the Mers...

Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades.Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works in a range of media—film, installation, video, painting, sculpture, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music—address the fundamental properties of his materials, the conditions of perception and experience, questio...

The great concern of the author is to lead us back to our Christian basics, to take back the Biblical view which has been severely distorted by the spirit of our times."God's word holds these things dear and holds them closely together: Love And Obedience; Prayer And Exhortation; Forgiveness And Repentance. Our failure to hold theseessentials together is a failure to hold to God's word..."

Snow Harper has spent her life learning how to disappear. When the city's glare turns a private sketch into public gossip, she retreats to the Mercer Conservatory—an oasis of green and warmth where plants remember how to keep living through cold. There, among humid air and dripping glass, Snow intends to finish a commission and keep her head down. What she doesn't expect is to find someone who looks at her the way her pencil looks at a leaf: with patience and an insistence that the smalles...

Anfang der sechziger Jahre brach der Kanadier Michael Snow eine erfolgversprechende Karriere als Musiker ab, um sich von da an ausschließlich seinen anderweitigen künstlerischen Interessen widmen zu können. Bald darauf entstanden in New York seine ersten experimentellen Filme, die heute noch dem Nachdenken über Film entscheidende Anstösse liefern. Nicht zufällig beschäftigt sich Snow parallel zu den Filmarbeiten seit 1970 auch mit Tonaufnahmen. Diese wenig bekannten Stücke sind eine konseq...

A Scotland Yard detective investigates when gunfire disrupts an aristocratic family's Christmas celebrations in this classic British mystery.The relatives of Sir Basil Roper are gathering to celebrate Christmas at the family's ancestral home in Yorkshire. While the ancient estate has remained unchanged for centuries, the surrounding area now features neon signs, a textile mill, and a brewery.Even so, Arthur Ferryman is happy to be there and looking forward to...

Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are at the level of content — they are meant to be looked at as well as read. Situated somewhere between a repository of contemporary thought by one of our leading Canadian artists and a history book...

LOUI know it shouldn’t matter what people say about me. But when my parents told me that I would never find love because I’m gay, I was willing to do anything to prove them wrong.So, when the most romantic guy ever asked me to marry him, I had to show him to them immediately. Was I moving too fast? Because as soon as I scored him an invitation to one of our obnoxious family get-togethers, he called things off.Now, I need a fiancé to replace the one ...

Every blizzard begins with a single snowflake.Rhys and his 3 closest friends are young adventurers trying to make a name for themselves in a world filled with monsters and magic. When they're sent on a royal quest to investigate rumors of a strange phenomenon happening up north, they get their chance.People all over the continent of Ravnia have been talking about frozen, white rain falling from the sky up north. Ravnia's sometimes warm, sometimes cool: neve...

I used to think my future in pro hockey, my motorcycle between my thighs, and my friends were all I needed.But she changed all that.She thinks she’s above it all.She thinks she can move into my father’s house with her gold-digging mother.She thinks she can do no wrong, but I saw her that night.Now I’m consumed by revenge.And my two best friends and I will be the ones to punish her.I won’t think about how soft her li...

We were willing to pay any price, until the price was herRevenge always has a costWe thought it’d be worth itThat we could bear any priceWillingly bleed for itBut when it becomes clear the price is her,All bets are off.She’s ours and no one takes what’s ours.This is book 3 and the final book in Lust & Liars series. This is a continuation of Brutal Little Secrets and begins where it left off.Narration i...