Island Zombie (eBook)

Iceland Writings

Roni Horn (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20897-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose me.-from the introductionContemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island's treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn's creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays, Island Zombie distills the artist's lifelong experience of Iceland's natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.Island Zombie is a meditation on being present. It vividly conveys Horn's experiences, from the deeply profound to the joyful and absurd. Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena-the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety-we come to understand the author's abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn's creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature's sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on Icelandic wilderness.Filled with musings on a secluded region that perpetually encourages a sense of discovery, Island Zombie illuminates a wild and beautiful Iceland that remains essential and new.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 43 color + 8 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: A Field Guide to Getting Lost • anatomy • angle of repose • Anthropocene • Arctic circle • arctic tern • artangel • Artist's Books • artist's notebook • artist's writings • Atlantic Ocean • Autobiography • awareness • Bacteria • black sand • Blizzard • Carbonated water • ceiling • clerestory • Climate • climate change • Cloud Cover • collected writings • Conceptual • darkness • density • Dirt • Dirt Road • Dyrholaey • early childhood • electricity • Emily Dickinson • Emptiness • entryway • Environmental Issues • Essays • Eudora Welty • experiential • First-Person Narrative • Floor • Fresh water • Geology • geothermal • geysers • Glacier • Glenn Gould • Head (vessel) • Hekla • Hellissandur • Herbicide • Hermaphrodite • hesitation • Hot Pot • Housewife • hummock • Iceberg • Iceland • icelandic • Infrastructure • Island • Isolation • Jules Verne • Kayak • Kerlingarfjoll • lagoon • Landscape • Lava • Lava field • Lighthouses • Linoleum • Lint (material) • Literature • litter • loudness • Lydia Davis • lyric • meal • Meditation • Migration • Moonshine • Morgunbladid • Motorcycles • Mouth • Nylon • ocean • Opacity (optics) • oxymoron • Oystercatcher • Pastoral • Patina • Peephole • Pesticide • plumage • Poetry • pollution • Pools • Publication • rebecca solnit • Reykjavik • Ripstop • River Can • Robert Macfarlane • Robert Smithson • room temperature • Roundness (object) • sea foam • sea ice • sea level • seclusion • sense of place • Sewage • Sleep • Snow • Snowdrift • social relation • Solitude • stairs • Steam • Stream bed • Surtsey • Surtshellir • sweater • swimming pool • Swimming Pools • tent • Terrazzo • the elements • The Environment • the facts in the case of m. valdemar • The Newspaper • The Wild Places • Toilets • Tonnage • Torso • Tourism • Transparency and translucency • uniqueness • Vegetation • Vibration • Volcanoes • Water • Water Heating • waterway • Wavelet • Weather • wetsuit • whiteness • Wildness • Wind • Windex • yellow rain
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20897-2 / 0691208972
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20897-8 / 9780691208978