Rebecca Horn - Hardcover

Horn, Rebecca; Celant, Germano; Morgan, Stuart; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892071109 ISBN 13: 9780892071104

Publisher: Guggenheim, 1993

Synopsis

Explores the fascinating and tantalizing work that has won Horn two decades of critical attention in Europe and America. This book contains four essays and numerous photographs of her work, including early performance pieces, mechanomorphic sculptures, site-specific installations and films.

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is essentially a catalog of the exhibition of Horn's work held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City's Soho last summer. There are two interviews with Horn, a German artist whose work has been rightly described as simultaneously disturbing and fascinating. Four well-written essays treat various aspects of her work, examining meaning and content as well as installations. Topics like "The Divine Comedy of Rebecca Horn," "Hybrid Machines," "A Different World," and her interiors are discussed in some detail. Sections on performances and films, a filmography, and a biography complete the text; an index would have been helpful. The illustrations provide a sense of Horn's work, although there is a lack of clarity in many, and, on the whole, the quality of the reproductions is not as good as one might have expected. Still, this is an excellent synopsis of Horn's work and career. Recommended for larger art collections.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

A performance artist, filmmaker, sculptor and poet, Horn explores the themes of human vulnerability and emotional fragility in her disquieting, often beguiling happenings, movies, anthropomorphized machines and fetishistic objects. Wearing fan-like wings, masks, long pull-on fingers or torso-enveloping feathers, her performers probe the possibilities of human flesh and the imagination. One site-specific installation, Concert in Reverse --set in a medieval German tower that was used by the Nazis to torture and execute Russian and Polish prisoners--sought to counteract the erasure of history. Horn's film, La Ferdinanda , set in a Medici villa owned by nouveau-riche industrialists, is a study of counterfeit existences. In this catalogue of an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, Celant, a Guggenheim curator, and a team of scholars unravel the multiple meanings and mythic symbols in this German artist's restlessly experimental work.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guggenheim
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0892071109
• ISBN 13: 9780892071104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 341