Rebecca Horn (Bilingual edition)

Name: Rebecca Horn (Bilingual edition)
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775751209
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Rebecca Horn (Bilingual edition) explores the seamless interweaving of reality and fiction, matter and spirit, subject and object in the artist Rebecca Horn's work. Accompanying her major exhibition at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, this catalogue spans five decades of her diverse oeuvre, from early body instruments and performances to feature films, kinetic sculptures, site-specific installations, drawings, and poems. Essays by esteemed authors reveal Horn's rich connections to art, literature, film, mythology, and myths, offering fresh insights into her boundary-blurring artistic vision.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary art, sculpture, performance art, and interdisciplinary artistic practices. It will also appeal to readers interested in the intersections of mythology, literature, and film within visual art.

Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for such works as "Pencil Mask" (1972), which looks like an instrument of torture, but which actually transforms the wearer's head into an instrument for drawing.

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Reality and fiction, matter and spirit, subject and object – the artist Rebecca Horn constantly blurs these boundaries. Even the different media she uses are not clearly separated, but their interweaving is part of her artistic principle.

This catalog, published to accompany the artist's comprehensive exhibition at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, is dedicated to this aspect of her work. Essays by renowned authors provide new perspectives on Horn’s oeuvre, which spans five decades: from her early body instruments and performances, to her feature films and kinetic sculptures, to her site-specific installations, drawings, and poems.

The countless connections to art, literature, and film traditions are illuminated, as well as Horn’s proximity to subjects from mythology and myths.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775751209

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 December 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 190 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Chus Martínez
Edited by Bettina M. Busse
Designed by Willi Schmid
Edited by Ingried Brugger
Text by Marta Smolinska
Text by Emma Lavigne

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 256.0mm

Height: 341.0mm

Weight: 1840g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

REBECCA HORN (*1944) became known in 1972 as the youngest participant in documenta 5. Since her solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1993), the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (1994) or the Tate Modern in London (1994), she is considered one of the most important German artists.