Vera Röhm / with essays by Eugen Gomringer and Stephen Bann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Röhm, Vera.

Contributor:

Gomringer, Eugen, 1925-

Bann, Stephen.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Röhm, Vera--Criticism and interpretation.

Röhm, Vera.

Installations (Art).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

199 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2006.

Summary:

Both a sculptor and a photographer, German-born Vera Rohm is best known for her unorthodox approach to visual art. Using a repertoire of only elementary geometrical shapes, Rohm's incisions, mutilations, and cross-sections of various materials evoke the very real challenges of restoration and reconstruction. "Vera Rohm "is the first comprehensive collection of this contemporary artist's work to be presented to an English-speaking public. It explores the changing shape of Rohm's art in such installations as "Integrations" and "Shadow Objects," as her photographs of the Jaipur Observatory, and works such as the cube series bearing the inscription "Night is the Earth's Shadow," which form part of a significant corpus of work connected with language. Accompanied by essays from renowned poet and critic Eugen Gomringer and the art historian Stephen Bann, "Vera Rohm" is lavishly illustrated with images from her exhibitions.

Contents:

Erganzung: Integration / Stephen Bann 13

Aspects of a Gesamtkunstwerk: Vera Rohm's oeuvre in Time and Space / Eugen Gomringer 29

Erganzungen 54

Scaffold Works 84

Jaipur Observatory 96

Shadow 106

Text Works 138

Public Works 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197).

ISBN:

1861892640

OCLC:

61177441