Cabinet of - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3882438649 ISBN 13 : 9783882438642

Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2003

Synopsis

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 the persona--the player--who temporarily assumes that guise. Cabinet of repeats 36 times the dissolution of the clown's appearance and thus, perhaps, the defining features of the clown itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 de la Ville de Paris and Funacao Serralves, Porto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Steidl Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3882438649
• ISBN 13: 9783882438642
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible