Research Catalog

Title

Island zombie : Iceland writings / Roni Horn.

Author

Horn, Roni, 1955-

Publication

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

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Details

Description

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

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"--

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• Morgunblađiđ.

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JQE 21-157

ISBN

• 9780691208145
• 069120814X
• 9780691208978 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020002286

OCLC

1140380798

Author

Horn, Roni, 1955- author.

Title

Island zombie : Iceland writings / Roni Horn.

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Title

Morgunblađiđ.

Other Form:

Online version: Horn, Roni, 1955- Island zombie Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 9780691208978 (DLC) 2020002287

Research Call Number

JQE 21-157