[Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

[John Muse]

Can someone briefly explain--or point me to resources that explain--how it is that in 1976 Peter Gidal can include Annette Michelson's June 1971 Artforum piece "Towards Snow" in his Structural Film Anthology when in the September 1971 issue of Artforum he excoriates her and this piece in particular, beginning a letter to the editor, 

> In a remarkably wrongheaded piece, Annette Michelson, in the june Artforum asserts, with reference to Michael Snow's film, Wavelength, "Snow has redefined filmic space as that of action.

"… remarkably wrongheaded…" is certainly polemical, but there she is in the anthology.  What happened?  Was her response to him persuasive?   

I'll take my answer off the air.  

j/PrM

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john muse
visiting assistant professor of independent college programs
haverford college
http://www.finleymuse.com
http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse
http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse

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