Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist and one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important issues in the history of art.

List of FiguresIntroductionPart One 1928-1962One: OriginsTwo: ConversionThree: Jazz BandFour: A Man Drawing LinesFive: IntimationsSix: GesturesSeven: Drawn OutEight: A Lot of Near Mrs.Nine: SurveyingPart Two 1962-1970Ten: Cool CityEleven: Eye and Ear ControlTwelve: More SnowgirlsThirteen: WavelengthsFourteen: New SurfacesFifteen: Canadians in ManhattanPart Three 1970-1979Sixteen: The Presence of the PastSeventeen: The Painterly PhotographEighteen: The Canadian WIldernessNineteen: A Giant SentenceTwenty: No Longer in PlayPart Four 1979-1994Twenty-One: Between Alchemy and ChemistryTwenty-Two: The EverydayTwenty-Three: The Presence of the AbsentTwenty-Four: AudiencesPart Five 1994-PresentTwenty-Five: BlockbusterTwenty-Six: Sound ShapingTwenty-Seven: A New PainterlinessTwenty-Eight: Repeat OffencesTwenty-Nine: Reshaping FragmentsThirty: New-Found ThingsThirty-One: Smoke and MirrorsAcknowledgementsShort-TitlesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex