Entrée principale:

Horn, Roni, 1955- author.

Titre et auteur:

Island zombie : Iceland writings / Roni Horn.

Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Description:

243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Island Zombie -- Pooling Waters: Making Being Here Enough ; Sometimes Dead ; The Cold Blood of Iceland ; Bluff and Psycho ; How--Is Visible Here ; Floating in the Desert ; Accidents Are Mundane ; Roads Lack Dedication ; Little Showers ; Falling Trees Make Sound ; Verne's Journey ; The Probability of Round Rocks ; Special Effects ; Lóa and Lóa ; Weather Is National Sport ; Anatomy and Geography ; Indoor Water ; Pronouns Detain Me ; Bluff Life ; A Newark Here ; Island and Labyrinth ; Where the Earth Is Hot ; Youth and Geometry ; Sleep: Rotation Method ; When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes ; Pastoral and Cave ; The Flats (After William Morris) ; Crossing a Field I Remember ; I Can't See the Arctic Circle from Here ; A Franchise of Rainbows ; Wallace Stevens's Ice -- Collected: Hot Water Sampler ; An Adhesive Feeling ; A Mink Look ; Mirror, Desert and Mirror ; Monroe, Iceland ; Throwing Itself Together ; Something Shimmering ; An Evening with Gelatinous and Glutinous ; Cloth-Home Culture ; The Other Here ; Water and Clearing (Excerpt) ; Conjecture a Cause: Seljavegur 2, Reykjavík 101, August 22, 2003 ; Notes on the Obsolescence of Islands ; Eruption, Assassination (November 1963) ; A White Stone -- My Oz -- Weather Reports You (Excerpt): Introduction ; Selection: 21 Reports -- Morgunblaðið Newspaper: Note on Texts ; The Nothing That Is ; Notes on Icelandic Architecture (Excerpt) ; One Hundred Waterfalls, Five Hundred Jobs -- Iceland's Difference.

Résumé:

"Roni Horn (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary artist known for her sculptures, photography, and installations inspired by landscape and the natural world, and especially the isolated landscapes of Iceland, where she has travelled and lived for substantial periods of time since the early 1970s. Horn's work explores geology and climate; the interplay of nature, art, and place; and the relationships between words, appearance, androgyny, and the self. Horn is author of more than twenty books and artist's books, and is herself the subject of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogs, including a survey published by Phaidon and many by Steidl. Examples of her work include You Are the Weather (1994-96), a series of photographs of a young woman bathing in Icelandic hot springs; Pair Objects (1988), identical metal sculptures placed in two different locations; and the installation Library of Water (2007) in Iceland, with columns that enclose water from melting glaciers. Horn is arguably the most important visual chronicler of the landscape of Iceland. Upon graduating from her MFA program at Yale, she traveled to Iceland, journeying across its interior on a motorcycle. Over thirty years, she has continually returned to Iceland to explore and record the astonishing beauty of its geology, climate, and culture. This book will contain a range of texts, from evocative vignettes to illustrated essays written for Iceland's most widely-read newspaper. A combination of artists' writings and travelogue, the texts reveal Iceland as one of Horne's most important influences and inspirations, and record a unique and beautiful environment undergoing climate change"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780691208145 hardcover
069120814X hardcover
electronic book
9780691208978

Sujet:

Horn, Roni, 1955-
ART / General.
Iceland.

Classification/genre:

Essays

Vedettes secondaires:

Morgunblađiđ.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 309282
Cote: BIB 254550
Statut: Prêt externe