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Roni Horn
Roni Horn
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Description for Roni Horn
Hardcover. This work is about the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. The book shows 36 head-shots of a clown. If mutability of appearance is integral to the phenomenon of the cloud - since dissolution or erasure is inevitable - the converse is proposed for the clown. Num Pages: 80 pages, 36 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 356 x 305 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1379.
The modalities of appearance mark Roni Horn's series of 36 head shots of a clown. Originally seen in her Clowd and Cloun installation, a series of alternating images on the two motifs of the cloud and the clown, Horn's stunning photographs of the inevitable clown (he always looks the same) disintegrate the very consistency that makes a clown recognizable as a clown. The clown is a constant, a symbolic form whose identity is rooted in a conventionally defined appearance (red bulbous nose, a shock of bright frizzy hair, white pancake skin, an ear-to-ear grin), one that occludes the specifics of ... Read more
The modalities of appearance mark Roni Horn's series of 36 head shots of a clown. Originally seen in her Clowd and Cloun installation, a series of alternating images on the two motifs of the cloud and the clown, Horn's stunning photographs of the inevitable clown (he always looks the same) disintegrate the very consistency that makes a clown recognizable as a clown. The clown is a constant, a symbolic form whose identity is rooted in a conventionally defined appearance (red bulbous nose, a shock of bright frizzy hair, white pancake skin, an ear-to-ear grin), one that occludes the specifics of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Steidl Publishers Germany
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
1389g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Gottingen, Germany
ISBN
9783882438642
SKU
V9783882438642
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About Roni Horn
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Her most recent solo shows were presented at Dia Center for the Arts, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Musee d'Art Moderne ... Read more
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