HORN, RONI

Roni Horn: Vatnasafn/Library of Water
Text by James Lingwood, Briony Fer, Adrian Searle, Roni Horn. The distinctive geography, climate and culture of Iceland has engaged Roni Horn for over 30 years. Her intimate relationship with the island has led to a multidisciplinary series of works, including books, drawings, sculpture, texts >>more
Steidl & Partners
ISBN 9783865219428
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Clth, 6.75 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 87 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
Introduction by Donna De Salvo, Carter E. Foster, Mark Godfrey. Text by Briony Fer. Over the course of more than 30 years, Roni Horn has developed a body of work of concentrated visual power, classical in its restraint, beauty and sensitivity to material. Horn's pieces invite conceptual engagement, though >>more
Steidl & Partners
ISBN 9783865218315
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Slip, Hbk, 2 vols, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 430 pgs / 375 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Roni Horn: Bird
Text by Philip Larratt-Smith. Bird is the culmination of Roni Horn's long-running photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl. Photographed at close range against white backgrounds which recall conventional studio portraiture, the birds are viewed from behind, abstra >>more
Steidl/Hauser & Wirth
ISBN 9783865216694
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Hardback, 11 x 12 in. / 36 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: A Kind of You
Text by Hélène Cixous. The cover of A Kind of You features a deadpan image of artist Roni Horn holding a black-and-white image of French Feminist theorist Hélène Cixous over her own face. Cixous contributes an essay to this >>more
Steidl & Partners
ISBN 9783865215833
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Paperback, 8.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 47 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Herdubreid at Home
"Iceland is really the center of action for me," Roni Horn has said. "Since I grew up in New York people think I'm escaping from all its lunacy. Not at all. When I go to >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783865214577
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 120 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Weather Reports You
Introduction by Roni Horn. "Everyone has a story about the weather. This may be the single thing each of us holds in common. And though the weather varies greatly from here to there, it is, ultimately, one weather that >>more
Steidl & Artangel, London
ISBN 9783865213884
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 196 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Roni Horn: Index Cixous, 2003-05
Artwork by Roni Horn. Text by Dave Hickey. Inspired by the philosopher and writer Hélène Cixous, which whom the photographer and artist Roni Horn has collaborated before, Index Cixous questions the nature of language in its most fundamental sense and proposes a version--one >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783865211354
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 15 color / 65 tritone.
Pub Date: 12/15/2005 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Her, Her, Her And Her
Artwork by Roni Horn. 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 >>more
Steidl/Dangin
ISBN 9783865210357
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Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 120 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock

If On A Winter'S Night...Roni Horn
Essays by Thierry de Duve, bell hooks, Barbara Kruger, Urs Stahel, Paulo Herkenhoff and Elisabeth Lebovici. Introduction by Robert Polidori. To enter Roni Horn's realm requires courage. But you only become aware of this after the fact, when it's already too late to back away, to erase the ever-repeating images from your mind. Attracted by >>more
Steidl/Fotomuseum Winterthur
ISBN 9783882439113
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 62 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Cabinet Of
Artwork by Roni Horn. 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 >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783882438642
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Hardcover, 12 x 14 in. / 76 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 05/02/2003 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: This Is Me, This Is You
Artwork by Roni Horn. This is Me, This is You is Roni Horn's handbook on 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 >>more
Edition 7L
ISBN 9783882437980
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Slipcased, 7.25 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Dictionary Of Water
Artwork by Roni Horn. 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 >>more
Edition 7L
ISBN 9783882437539
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Slipcased, 11 x 14 in. / 200 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Active/Awaiting stock

Roni Horn: Earth Grows Thick
Contributions by Amada Cruz. Text by bell hooks. Emily Dickinson's poems stand alone in the English language in their severe yet wild shapeliness and unhindered dexterity of thought. In Earths Grow Thick, the American artist Roni Horn put those poems--or lines from them--to >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390121
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Paperback, 10.25 x 8.25 in. / 104 pgs / 20 color / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Roni Horn: Rare Spellings
Artwork by Roni Horn. Roni Horn has established herself as one of today's foremost makers of language-based drawings and sculpture. This book reproduces over 80 of her works on paper in full color. They are by turns amusing, disturbing >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783928762090
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Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 56 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Roni Horn: Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva)
Essay by Hélène Cixous. Roni Horn's work ranges from unapologetically pretty color close-ups of striking young faces (This is Me, This is You) and darkly patterned studies of the surface of the River Thames (Dictionary of Water) to her >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783865211491
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Slipcased, 11.25 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 18 color.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/In stock

Roni Horn: Pi
Artwork by Roni Horn. >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775709125
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 46 color
Pub Date: 04/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

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Features and Themes of the Spring 2010 D.A.P. Catalog

By Thomas Evans

For each season of the D.A.P. catalog, new themes and trends coalesce across the 600-odd titles announced therein, indicating emergent preoccupations and new areas of research in the arts. The Spring 2010 catalogue opens with an exciting and extremely significant culmination to that strain, in the form of The Museum of Modern Art's forthcoming appraisal of the female artists in its collection, Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. This volume, and the occasion of its publication, marks a bold move on MoMA's part to initiate a reassessment of its collection, and will no doubt encourage other institutions to follow suit...

In the current catalogue, another set of strengths emerges (not that it lacks for new monographs on neglected female artists--see forthcoming titles on Angelika Hoerle, Mercedes Matter, Lee Lozano, Unica Zürn and Birgit Jürgenssen). As always, the General Interest section boasts many 'books for life,' with ambitious and superbly produced monographs on Ed Ruscha, Yves Klein, Marina Abramovic, Francis Bacon (already shipping), Henri Cartier-Bresson, Botticelli, Burne-Jones, Rousseau, Renoir, Robert Doisneau, Edweard Muybridge, Walker Evans and others; each of these titles presents its own particular stack of reasons to anticipate its publication with excitement.

Photography monographs are clearly more than well represented on the Spring 2010 Books for Life shelf, but a particular emphasis falls this season on innovative group catalogues, with Aperture's groundbreaking tome on the Düsseldorf School (the three generations of photographers schooled by Bernd and Hilla Becher, including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth among others); Starburst, Hatje Cantz's fantastic survey of the color-photography boom of the 1970s, with William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, William Christenberry, John Divola, Mitch Epstein and many others; and the Guggenheim's Haunted, which traces the presence and recurrence--the "haunting"--of contemporary photography and video art by specters of the past, in the form of defunct or outmoded technologies and subjects.

Publishers such as Metropolis and NAi are doing important work to publish imaginative responses to ever-more-pressing issues around climate change and sustainability, and the General Interest section contains several extremely innovative titles on this subject: an expanded edition of Fritz Haeg's bestselling "attack on the front lawn," Edible Estates, which includes several new projects and a manifesto by Will Allen, the founder of the famous Growing Power project in Wisconsin; Reading the American Landscape, an amazing and epic-scaled survey of the typologies and taxonomies of the American landscape, "from verandas to concert halls, individual plants to entire parks, highways to railroads, indoor exhibition spaces to public sculptures, desert horizons to secluded gardens"; On the Water, Guy Nordenson's sobering but imaginative exploration of the impact of rising currents on the New York and New Jersey shorelines; and two great titles from Hatje Cantz--Arium, which tackles the porousness and interaction between weather and architecture, and Migropolis, a psychogeographic survey of Venice's recent transformation under the twin pressures of climate change and tourism. A related publication in the Highlights section is Radical Nature, which collects utopian and ecological strategies devised by artists and architects from the 1960s to now, such as Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Luke Fowler and others; also worth mentioning in relation to these titles are two impressive photography books on the collapse and decay of Detroit: Andrew Moore's Detroit Disassembled and Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's The Ruins of Detroit.

D.A.P. has long supported publications on artist's books, and both books on artist's books and broader surveys of printed matter are notable presences in the Spring 2010 catalogue. The highlight title here must be JRP's In Numbers, edited by Andrew Roth and Philip Aarons, whose subtitle--"Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955"--both announces its premise and draws the reader into further inquiry. "Serial Publications" refers to publications by artists with innovative and prominent design qualities--publications that don't quite fit the 'artist's book' category, and several of which D.A.P. has distributed or does distribute in both original and facsimile editions: Wallace Berman's Semina, The Situationist Times, Joe Brainard's C Comics, General Idea's File magazine, Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's 0-9, Provoke, the Fluxus annual boxes, Art-Language, North Drive Press, Donald Parsnips Daily Journal, LTTR, Permanent Food and many others. The publisher Primary Information has made a specialty of this realm, and this season will be issuing a timely facsimile edition of Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear's Avalanche, the New York-based magazine that handed the critical reins over to artists and which was a crucial touchstone publication for American artists in the 1970s. Primary Information also brings us two further facsimile editions: Lee Lozano's best-known works, her notebooks, and Coffee Coffee, Aram Saroyan's influential collection of Concrete/Minimalist poems, first published by 0-9 in 1967. Other titles on artists' books include the first surveys of book works by Sol LeWitt and Olafur Eliasson, and Four Corners' wonderfully designed survey of Eduardo Paolozzi's text and collage contributions to Ambit magazine, The Jet Age Compendium. A D.A.P. staff favorite that cannot go unmentioned here is Ellsworth Kelly's Thumbing Through the Folder, which supplied the Highlights divider spread for this catalogue, and which is comprised of a conversation between Kelly and Hans Ulrich Obrist, interleaved with reproductions of collaged postcards by Kelly--a previously unseen and very charming body of work that is beautifully housed in this volume.

A large portion of our theory list this season also clusters around a common topic. "The Educational Turn" is an expression heard with increasing frequency in the art world, especially in art pedagogy and curatorial theory, and several titles address how art is studied, mediated, encountered and sold: Rethinking the Contemporary Art School, Curating and the Educational Turn, A Manual for the 21st Century Arts Institution, Arts in Society and The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. At the slightly friendlier end of our writings list, two strong new titles on Pop art deserve note: a much overhauled reprint of John Wilcock's The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, first published in 1971, and unique in its insider angle on the early days of Warhol's coterie and career. Publisher Chris Trela has worked hard to make this the book it should have originally been, and greatly expands our sense of the era and of Warhol himself by reprinting it. Published by MFA Publications, The Pop Revolution is the late Alice Goldfarb Marquis' social history of Pop art--a group portrait," as she describes it, "of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been marketed and appreciated--in the monetary and aesthetic sense--up to the present day." This book is certainly as readable and as superbly written as her previous works on Duchamp and Clement Greenberg.