RONI HORN'S ICELANDIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Since 1990, the American artist Roni Horn has published nine volumes of a book project titled To Place which she calls an ‘Icelandic Encyclopaedia’. The books include over 400 photographs. In this paper, I contextualize the project in the history of post‐conceptual photographic practices and artists...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00712.x 2024-04-07T07:53:29+00:00 RONI HORN'S ICELANDIC ENCYCLOPEDIA GODFREY, MARK 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00712.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-8365.2009.00712.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00712.x en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Art History volume 32, issue 5, page 932-953 ISSN 0141-6790 1467-8365 Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2009 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00712.x 2024-03-08T03:08:08Z Since 1990, the American artist Roni Horn has published nine volumes of a book project titled To Place which she calls an ‘Icelandic Encyclopaedia’. The books include over 400 photographs. In this paper, I contextualize the project in the history of post‐conceptual photographic practices and artists' books. I argue that Horn uses the form of the archive and encyclopedia to undo rather than cement categories and definitions, by constantly shifting the mode of presentation from volume to volume. I look at the way in which genres of portraiture and landscape become one another, and at Horn's treatment of the book form. The essay argues that Iceland has a paradoxical attraction for Horn: it is a place of ‘becoming’, whose geological identity is mutable, and it is a landscape which allows her to feel centred. These two meanings are communicated through the ways in which photographs are presented to the viewer/reader of the To Place books. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Oxford University Press Art History 32 5 932 953 |
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Since 1990, the American artist Roni Horn has published nine volumes of a book project titled To Place which she calls an ‘Icelandic Encyclopaedia’. The books include over 400 photographs. In this paper, I contextualize the project in the history of post‐conceptual photographic practices and artists' books. I argue that Horn uses the form of the archive and encyclopedia to undo rather than cement categories and definitions, by constantly shifting the mode of presentation from volume to volume. I look at the way in which genres of portraiture and landscape become one another, and at Horn's treatment of the book form. The essay argues that Iceland has a paradoxical attraction for Horn: it is a place of ‘becoming’, whose geological identity is mutable, and it is a landscape which allows her to feel centred. These two meanings are communicated through the ways in which photographs are presented to the viewer/reader of the To Place books. |
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