Roni Horn: Rare Spellings Selected Drawings 1985-1992

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Artwork by Roni Horn.

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Roni Horn (Contemporary Artists)
Louise Neri
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ASIN: 0714838659

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Good overview.......2001-02-10

roni horn has had a strong impact on contemporary photography . Her works incorporate the ideologies of many important movements of contemporary art which have been underrepresented in the fine art photgraphy world....this may be contested but i think that in the majority of the FA Photography there are extremely conservative currents, that run back to its stepchild role among the "truely" fine arts. Thankfully horn represents a challenging view for photography.

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Roni Horn: Doubt Box (To Place)
Roni Horn
Manufacturer: Steidl
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Binding: Leather Bound

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ASIN: 386521276X
Release Date: 2006-11-15

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Roni Horn's To Place is an ongoing series of small editions, each book a unique look at the relationship between identity and location. They take as their starting point Iceland and Horn's evolving experiences there, illustrated in watercolors, photographs, typographic drawings, and text. Doubt Box is the ninth book in the set, printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, and it comes in the form of a collection of 28 loose two-sided images printed on cards, which makes for 56 color reproductions. One face of each shows the glacial river Skaft, proverbially both changing and constant. The other shows any of a collection of possibilities--a boy, an iceberg, birds. Each card offers a hybrid, a composite, while together they suggest the universality of duality, and particularly the dual nature of identity.

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Xl Photography 2
Jean-Christophe Ammann , Philip-Lorca diCorcia , Roni Horn , Nicholas Nixon , and Erwin Wurm
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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ASIN: 3775713581
Release Date: 2004-04-02

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The German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt, headquartered in Germany and Luxembourg, has significantly extended its collection of photographs in the last year, acquiring primarily large-format works by upcoming artists. Hence the necessity to produce XL Photography 2, sequel to the two-year-old XL Photography. This volume features photographers who employ an unparalleled range of modes of design and expression, spanning the rather classical black-and-white photographs of Nicholas Nixon and the cool color photographs of Stephen Shore, as well as the innovative One-Minute Sculptures of Erwin Wurm. Under the artistic guidance of Jean-Christophe Ammann, the photographic collection of the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt places established artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, SebastiNo Selgado, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Roni Horn, and Jrgen Teller next to younger, as yet-undiscovered talents. This luxuriously designed, large-scale picture book represents all significant positions taken by photography in the past ten years.

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman

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Joyride

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman , Jane Dickson , Peter Dreher , Stephen Ellis , Barbara Krueger , Laura Letinsky , Stephen Prina , Linder Sterling , Roni Horn , Silvia Kolbowski , Jeff Koons , Vik Muniz , Juan Munoz , Kiki Smith , Haim Steinbach , and Jessica Stockholder
Manufacturer: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 1891024469
Release Date: 2002-10-02

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In This Is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas, the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts. Engaging, funny, elegant, and ironic, Tillman takes the reader to new heights of wit and meaning through staccato phrases, grammatical twists, and sensuous language. Familiar worlds of honesty, deceit, dark humor, pleasure, pain, confusion, dependence, love, and lust each play decisive roles in her believable fictions. In "Come and Go," three characters and an author collide. In "Pleasure Isn't A Pretty Picture," the reader is treated to a he/she meditation on the one-night stand. And "Dead Sleep" is truly an insomniac's worst nightmare. A twin act on a double bill, This Is Not It is a collection of innovative and stand-alone writing that also engages and matches wits with the some of the best contemporary art: work by Kiki Smith, Jane Dickson, Jessica Stockholder, Diller & Scofidio, Laura Letinsky, Peter Dreher, Roni Horn, Stephen Ellis, Juan Munoz, Vik Muniz, Silvia Kolbowski, Jeff Koons, James Welling, Aura Rosenberg, Barbara Ess, Barbara Kruger, Dolores Marat, Haim Steinbach, Gary Schneider, Marco Breuer, Stephen Prina, and Linder Sterling. Since 1982, acclaimed novelist Tillman has created these unique narratives that are a parallel universe to the contemporary art world. Maybe they're analogues or dialogues, maybe fictions inspired by art, maybe reflections, or meditations--but whatever they're called, like Borges's fictions, they are their own worlds, too. Tillman has marked out terrain of her own, which this collection celebrates. Full of life and art, This Is Not It is illuminating, bold, subtle, and riotous.

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Joyride.......2003-04-12

...through a unique vision of the world we're struggling to be in - through the alternation of worlds. A glimpse into the nature of things, situation, and people. Precise sentiments. Bold language. Innovative forms. Rewarding for young writers and readers who enjoy variety in literature. Leave this book alone though if you're used to more traditional stuff - not that everyone would like Lynne Tillman.

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Roni Horn: Dictionary of Water
Roni Horn
Manufacturer: Edition 7L
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ASIN: 3882437537
Release Date: 2001-08-02

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What do you see when you look at water? American artist Roni Horn suggests 95 answers, 95 directions, 95 possibilities. Here is water as it continuously reshapes itself. Here is a dictionary because water is the ultimate lexicon, because Horn's work is always about completeness. This incredible collection of digitally manipulated photographic images are from Horn's long-term project documenting the River Thames. With this project, she has now completed her study of the river, and this luxurious volume is a perfect final statement of the work. Oversized, linen-bound, and slipcased, this book features stochastic screening on extremely heavy paper for the best possible reproduction quality.

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An Aside: Works Selected By Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean , Peter Fischli , David Weiss , Joseph Beuys , Isa Genzken , Rodney Graham , Roni Horn , Sharon Lockhart , Marisa Merz , Gerhard Richter , Thomas Schutte , and Kurt Schwitters
Manufacturer: Hayward Gallery
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ASIN: 1853322474
Release Date: 2005-05-15

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This beautiful artist's book accompanies the Hayward Gallery travelling exhibition curated by artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean. Dean approached the task of selecting the works for this exhibition and this book as she does the making of her own work: with intuition as a guide, and a certain openness to coincidences and emerging themes.

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Some neat ephemera boxed with a great Anne Carson book.

Roni Horn: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)
Anne Carson , Helene Cixous , Louise Bourgeois , and Roni Horn
Manufacturer: Steidl
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ASIN: 3865210058
Release Date: 2004-10-02

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In this collaboration with four preeminent artists and writers, Roni Horn presents her latest work: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in a slipcase, plus an envelope of drawings by Anne Carson. Each volume comprises a text written in response to the same selection of Horn's titles/phrases: 19th C. Water; Cabinet Of; Dead Owl; Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes; Her, Her, Her and Her; Untitled (Yes); Water, Still; You are the Weather.The respondents are sculptor Louise Bourgeois, poet/writer Anne Carson, philosopher/writer Hal ne Cixous, and film director/artist John Waters. Individually, these booklets embody the voice of each writer. Together they become the content of Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)--further extending the landscape of Roni Horn's art.

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Some neat ephemera boxed with a great Anne Carson book........2007-07-04

If you're looking at this review, chances are you're interested in the books in question not so much because of Roni Horn or the other authors, but because you've read other Anne Carson books and wonder whether this one is as good. it is. And as a bonus, you get two volumes of adorable throwaway lines by the great comic team of Jon Waters and Louise Bourgeois, and one volume of damn near unreadable goo by the reliably dreadful Helene Cixous. I'm an irrational Carson fan, grateful for any little thing, and would have gotten this regardless. What a relief, then, that it's this good. If you're new to Carson, you'll get more for the dollars with other books, like Plainwater and The Economy of the Unlost. if you're here for Bourgeois, you get muchmuchmore of her in the MIT Press collection The Destruction of the Father. If for Waters, you're a fan and will get this regardless, won't you?

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Roni Horn: This is Me, This is You
Roni Horn
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ASIN: 3882437987
Release Date: 2002-06-02

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Description: This is Me, This is You is Roni Horn's handbook of identity. It is also a book with no end. Peruse the 48 images taken with a point-and-shoot camera and, as you arrive at the last image, flip the book over and begin again. Each image reappears, in a version taken just seconds later. A single and singular portrait of one young girl taken over a two-year period, This is Me, This is You evokes a multitude--of identities, images, and icons--of everything that can be subtly revealed in the process of visiting and revisiting a single person through a camera, through time. Ultimately, it is the multitude that exists in all of us.

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Conceptual maze
Roni Horn's Exquisite Tease

Roni Horn: Her, Her, Her And Her
Roni Horn
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Roni Horn (Contemporary Artists)

ASIN: 386521035X
Release Date: 2004-11-02

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In this collection of 120 black-and-white photographs, Roni Horn takes us on a journey through a locker room in Reykjavik, Iceland. With minimal movement between the camera and subject in succeeding frames, and through the use of a slow-shutter technique, this finely crafted body of work provokes the viewer to contemplate the subtleties of each image. A blur behind a portal suggests that someone else is in the locker room with the viewer. Room numbers, open and closed doors, and intersecting hallways give clues to the surroundings, and as we turn each page of the book, we sense the subtle shifting of time and space in photographs that reflect a sculptor's attention to the details of surfaces, repetition, and form.

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Conceptual maze.......2005-08-05

This book is not easy to approach for someone who expects a nice and traditional photobook. It's beauty does not rely in its formal appearance, but in the concept that lies behind the project.
Roni Horn is a conceptual artist exploring some peculiar aspects of photography, such as - for example - seriality. Her, Her, Her And Her is a symbolic trip into a maze (the changing rooms of a swimming pool) where a ghostly female presence zips in and out, but never lets you look properly at her. This can be read in different ways, wondering about identity, the female role, the perversion of peeping through a hole to see a female body...
The author sets up a scenario and a theme, but it's the viewer that has to set the plot.
Her, Her, Her And Her is a great photo book. No foreword, no biography, no text at all: just a cover and a series of 120 black and white bleed page pictures. (publisher Steidl never lets you down...)

Roni Horn's Exquisite Tease.......2005-04-20

Roni Horn is a photographer whose primary expression is the photographic book, as opposed to the common practice of periodically slapping together a collection of greatest hits. Roni Horn approaches photography sequentially and conceptually, and she apparently conceives much of her photographic work for the book first, and the exhibition second.

That's part of what makes Her, Her, Her and Herso tantalizing. Tantalizing, as in we are each Tantalus, up to our neck in water, witnessing page after page of Horn's images of a spa somewhere in Reykjavik, Iceland. The book confines us to a repetitive world of white tile and grout, sometimes allowing us to peek through tiny round windows set in doors with numbers above them. (The numbers seem to indicate changing rooms, and the same windows and numbers recur throughout the book, adding another level of possible meaning.)

Page after page, her images reveal subtle nuances of spatial variation, mostly indicated by the changes within the tile patterns. Details are spare. Occasionally we are given glimpses of blurred skin, fingers gripping a doorway, a leg--all ghostly traces of a female bather. (Never more than one bather at a time, which raises the question why?) Page after page Horn teases us with hints of difference amidst a plenitude of sameness, urging us to look closer, to stare hard to find the difference between one photograph and another, and to mentally enter the spaces--if we can.

Yet every time we try to enter the space or get closer to the wispy female bather, the image recedes like water or fruit shying away from Tantalus. We are held in a sustained condition of thirst and hunger without ever being fully sated. Our only hope for satisfaction is to be constantly attentive for any small difference, progressively dialing up our sensitivity, image after image, until the slightest resonances and details are telling. And that's precisely the moment when Horn hits the viewer with a visual change-up that resonates like a truck ramming into a building. A face, for instance. Or some other abrupt visual shift. Looking at this book is an exquisite state of desire, attention, and agitation.

In the end, the entire experience is surprisingly fulfilling. Horn has stated in interviews that her larger interest is in exporing identity--hence the title. The different individual women we see, one at a time, are impossible to identify due to blurring and the absence of detail. Sometimes a foot is all that held still long enough to appear in the photograph.

Interestingly enough, this eliminates any focus on the female body as an aesthetic, documentary, erotic or formal presence. We're faced more with the sense that some "she" was here, and another "she" was there, but it's experiencing the idea of someone rather than a concrete someone. In the end, the only identity guaranteed to be present is the viewer's, and that's easy to question after spending much time with this book.

Lovely. What an intelligence. Buy it and dwell in it, before it's out of print and expensive.

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This heartfelt book recounts the author's personal struggles with doubt, uncertainty, and skepticism in the face of three consequential life experiences - the death of his parents, his life as a black American, and his lifelong preoccupation with the Nazi Holocaust. For Hubert Locke, as for many others who share his circumstances or sensitivities, these experiences have presented a serious challenge to conventional Christian teaching. They have forced him to reexamine Scripture, where he has ultimately - and beneficially - discovered a remarkable congeniality on the part of biblical writers with doubters and skeptics. "Doubt is not an act of unbelief," Locke writes. "In fact and ironically, doubt may be a supreme act of faith and devotion. If this is too much to claim, at least doubt and skepticism are stances that Scripture understands and for which the Bible has the utmost sympathy." "Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places" is a heart-cry by one person whose honest journey through life has earned him a special kind of spiritual peace, a person who has profound insights to offer others seeking to live Christianly in a confusing, contradictory world. Penetrating and sensitive, questioning and honest, this book is for believers and seekers alike who are looking for a meaningful, real discussion of life's duplicity.

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Theological reflection that is both inspiring and courageous.......2006-11-18

This is a very personal book in which a renowned scholar and thoughtful Christian confronts with honesty and integrity the three biggest challenges to his faith. The text is very well-written and devoid, thankfully, of trite stories or simplistic allegories. As another "doubting Thomas" myself, I found this book helpful for my own struggles "groping" for God.

The eternal questions from a Christian point- of- view .......2005-09-29

I benefit in writing this review from having read the review of F. Kurt Messick. Messick's reviews are among the best I know. They are usually careful and often profound readings of the texts in question.
He points out that Hubert G. Locke's title is somewhat misleading as the focus is not on Racism, nor the Holocaust but rather on issues of religious faith and doubt occasioned by Locke's loss of his parents.
I found this work to be a sincere and moving one. Locke writes beautifully about his mother and her religious faith and what this meant to him. The doubts raised in him by her loss are I am sure familiar to everyone who has lost a loved one. In the Jewish tradition a person who has lost a close relative is freed of religious duties before the time of the burial. It is understood somehow that this is a time of tremendous questioning and turmoil.
Locke sets out the story of his own intellectual journey. He seems to an especially sensitive and understanding person. When he speaks about the way he conducted so many funerals without understanding really what the people must be going through(Something he could only understand when suffering his own loss) he shows his modesty and awareness of human failing.
No one I believe can answer the questions raised by the seemingly disproportionate suffering of good people, the questions of the reality of the Afterlife in a clear and decisive way. The great teacher Maimonedes taught us that it does not make much sense to speculate on such questions.
In the end as Locke understands we are left with our need for God and the faith which may not abolish doubt but contends with it and at vital moments overcomes it.
This is a profound book by a very noble and admirable human being.

Certainty and Doubt.......2003-08-14

Hubert G. Locke's text, with the somewhat daunting title of 'Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death,' is an interesting and spiritually engaging text. It is not what I expected from the title. Locke does address the Holocaust, and does address Racism, and certain covers Death, but in fact, I found the primary theme that runs through the entire piece to be the interplay of Doubt and Faith, grounded in a very Christian context.

This context is, like many things in life, a double-edged sword. It is good in the sense that it explains for Christians who may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable with issues like Racism and the Holocaust a way of looking at these historical realities in a way that begins to make some sense, not necessarily from these things themselves, but rather a sensible way of dealing with the way they make us feel about the reality of doubt and faith in God. The down-side of this being so completely a Christian text is that certain audiences (such as Jewish readers) may be unable to engage the material fully.

Locke begins the text by being thoroughly personal in his presentation, talking about his own periods of crisis with the death of his parents, recasting these as periods in which the persistence of doubt and the threat of losing faith were very present for him.

Ironically (given the title), the chapters dealing with the Holocaust and with Racism proper are rather brief additions; though they form interesting examples, I was never quite sure they served as more than primary examples, rather than issues worthy of top-billing in the title, for the important direction of Locke's text. The Holocaust is dealt with again from a very Christian perspective for the most part; Locke speaks of the Hamburg preacher Helmut Thielicke, who was eventually forbidden to preach by the German authorities; his silence enforced from the outside echoed the silence of God he preached upon from the pulpit. Locke's experience with Racism, apart from his personal experience as an African-American, extends to visits to South Africa and research he has done on the wider problems of Racism world-wide.

Locke comes back to the primary focus of his text, the interplay of doubt, certainty, and faith, addressing it from the standpoint of several particular scriptural examples, such as Job, Thomas and Peter. He then comes round to dealing with various Pauline passages, talking about some inconsistencies in interpretation and statement (how can one have the assurance of things for which there can be no knowledge?) and later developments in Christianity.

Overall, this text was not what I thought it would be, given the title, but I was pleasantly surprised by what I did find. Beyond the specific topics highlighted, the broader aspects of doubt and faith are brought together in a manner that does not definitively resolve the difficulties (for such is unlikely if not impossible), but gives the reader a deeper understanding of the relationships of God and humanity, God and individuals, and our relationship to each other. A good text.

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