Island zombie : Iceland writings / Roni Horn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horn, Roni, 1955- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iceland.

Horn, Roni, 1955-.

Horn, Roni.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; London, England : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691208978

9780691208145

069120814X

OCLC:

1140353522