Rebecca horn s body landscapes frieze magazine round the horn an interview with rebecca horn postmedia. Since the beginning of the 1970s, rebecca horn has been creating an oeuvre which constitutes an evergrowing flow of performances, films, sculptures, spatial installations, drawings and photographs. This book is the first publication devoted to a previously largely overlooked group of works by the internationally acclaimed artist rebecca horn her rich and diverse graphic oeuvre the drawings completed by. Rebecca horn born 24 march 1944, michelstadt, hesse is a german visual artist, who is best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such as einhorn unicorn, a body suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. This wheelchair sculpture does at least two things.
Rebecca horn is a german artist known for her performances which involve prosthetic uniforms and sculptural installations. Anette kruszynski is the author of amedeo modigliani 4. Her work looks back to alchemical explorations by the female surrealists, and forward to largescale contemporary, poetic, and mechanical sculptures. Rebecca horn gained international recognition with her mechanical objects and mobile sculptures, among them such works as paradieswitwe, spiralbad, the wall drawing les amants, produced as part of an action, and her expansive circle for broken landscape. Research on rebecca horns drawing machines my drawing2 blog. A first group of works is derived from the performance white body fan 1972 in which rebecca horn referred to the old human fascination with winged and feathered beings. Rebecca horn is always open to new methods for generating art. Bodylandscapes drawings,sculptures,installations 1964 2004.
Her necessary stay in a sanatorium added an important psychic dimension to the trauma. Rebecca horn donne nellarte in 2020 horns, a level. In the late 1960s she inhaled the fibreglass with which she was working and had to spend a year in hospital. Rebecca horn download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Body landscapes by rebecca horn, paulo herkenhoff text by, anette kruszynski text by online at alibris. Bodylandscapes brings together her work across all media, from the start of her career in the late 1960s through to the present day. Rebecca horn s particular way of seeing is to go past the sensible obvious arrangements of objects and people, and rearrange them in a way that is not obvious at all. Rebecca horn is famous for her body extension pieces, which completely transform the body and the space around it. In contrast to rebecca horns drawing machines i looked at harvey moon, on the creators project blog. Horn s pieces are all body art, including body extensions, performance art, and installations. Rebecca horn flying books under black rain painting. He is in no doubt that the machines have no human qualities or emotions. Horn, rebecca, herkenhoff, paulo, kruszynski, anette, schmidt, katharina, zweite, armin. It seems that horn suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, which was undoubtedly traumatic in itself.
Isbn 9780810968707 9780810968707 hardcover, guggenheim museum pubns, 1994. Her musical scores, technical drafts, and drawings are done in a remarkably calligraphic style and are frequently accompanied by words and lines of poetry. Download rebecca horn body landscapes read full ebook. One is that it gets us to actually look at the wheelchair not just as functional device but as designed object. Theres a duchamp feel to it, and a becketlike absurdity, but such is the authority of horn s vision that her creations feel both natural and revelatory. Body landscapes offers readers an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct the intense and fruitful dialogue between horns graphic works and her objects. Rebecca horn gained international recognition with her mechanical objects and. Body landscapes offers readers an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct the intense and fruitful dialogue between horns graphic works. Explore books by rebecca horn with our selection at. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Like kahlos, horn s early work evolved out of serious illness. Body landscapes essays by paulo herkenhoff, anette kruszynski, katharina schmidt and armin zweite. This book is the first publication devoted to a previously largely overlooked group of works by the internationally acclaimed artist. Cookies on oxfam we use cookies to ensure that you have the best experience on our website.
While working with toxic materials as a student, german artist rebecca horn contracted lung poisoning and was sent to a sanitarium for about a. In recent years she has combined painting and photography to produce photopainting, in which overpainted photographs are rephotographed, overpainted again and photographed again, in a wild dialogue between spontaneity paint and document photography that erases or obscures the finality of each successive gesture. If you continue browsing, well assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. Rebecca horn uses images of assistive technology in both sculpture and performance art.
Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconsidered locomotive means between two sites. See available photographs, sculpture, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Essays by paulo herkenhoff, anette kruszynski, katharina schmidt and armin zweite. Were featuring millions of their reader ratings on our book pages to help you find your new favourite book. Jeanette winterson interviews rebecca horn for her. Rebecca horn focuses on the body its relationship with nature, its sensory awareness, frailty and desire tapping into the world of metaphor, legend and alchemy. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from soso to excellent. Bodydresscity explores the performative contiguity of body, garment and environment to reveal, frame and question how the city can be understood as a spaceinaction. He uses his skills as a computer programmer and sets algorithms which determine the movements of the pen, and thus the outcome, i. See more ideas about horns, installation art and contemporary art. Read book pdf online here book 3775714707download rebecca horn body landscapes read full ebook. Drawings from 1964 to 2004, rebecca horn bodylandscapes, p. Using belts, she fixed a pair of semicircular wings made of white fabric to her body that unfolded when she raised her arms. While horn has not discussed her childhood or family in depth, introducing only snippets, we know that her parents were industrialists and her uncle to whom she was close.
Body landscapes, oxfam, rebecca horn, 3775714707, 9783775714709. Rebecca horn art monographs and museum exhibition catalogs. Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Isbn 9783775714709 9783775714709 hardcover, hatje cantz publishers, 2005 rebecca horn. Rebecca horn is a german installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications rebecca horn, unicorn, 1970 a still from an early film made in 1970 about the einhorn unicorn performance, in which a woman walks through the countryside for 12 hours with the unicorn object. Rebecca horn has a longstanding interest in the creation of magical objects, which she infuses with both tenderness and pain. Body landscapes 01 by rebecca horn, paulo herkenhoff, anette kruszynski, katharina schmidt, armin zweite isbn. Drawing on the power of pain and perversity telegraph.
From her beginnings, 40 years ago, to her new retrospective at the hayward in london, she has remained true. Rebecca horn body landscapes rebecca horn gained international recognition with her mechanical objects and mobile sculptures, among them such works as paradieswitwe, spiralbad, the wall drawing les amants, produced as part of an action, and her expansive circle for broken landscape. Rebecca horn was born in the midst of war, in 1944 in michelstadt, hesse, germany. Rebecca horn perpetuates in a unique manner, the themes bequeathed to us by mythology and fairytales, such as metamorphosis into a hybrid or mythical creature, the secret life of the world of objects, the secrets of alchemy, or the fantasies of body robots. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions. To make walking into an investigation, a ritual, a meditation, is a special subset of walking, physiologically like and philosophically unlike the way the mail carrier brings the. Rebecca horn by rebecca horn, 9783775714709, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Body fantasies at the tinguely museum drew attention to this phenomenon by organizing the presentation by key themes, rather than chronologically.