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Island zombie : Iceland writings /

"Roni Horn (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary artist known for her sculptures, photography, and installations inspired by landscape and the natural world, and especially the isolated landscapes of Iceland, where she has travelled and lived for substantial periods of time since the early 1970...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horn, Roni, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Island Zombie
  • Pooling Waters
  • Making Being Here Enough
  • Sometimes Dead
  • The Cold Blood of Iceland
  • Bluff and Psycho
  • How-Is Visible Here
  • Floating in the Desert
  • Accidents Are Mundane
  • Roads Lack Dedication
  • Little Showers
  • Falling Trees Make Sound
  • Verne's Journey
  • The Probability of Round Rocks
  • Special Effects
  • Lóa and Lóa
  • Weather Is National Sport
  • Anatomy and Geography
  • Indoor Water
  • Pronouns Detain Me
  • Bluff Life
  • A Newark Here
  • Island and Labyrinth
  • Where the Earth Is Hot
  • Youth and Geometry
  • Sleep: Rotation Method
  • When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes
  • Pastoral and Cave
  • The Flats (After William Morris)
  • Crossing a Field I Remember
  • I Can't See the Arctic Circle from Here
  • A Franchise of Rainbows
  • Wallace Stevens's Ice
  • Collected
  • Hot Water Sampler
  • An Adhesive Feeling
  • A Mink Look
  • Mirror, Desert and Mirror
  • Monroe, Iceland
  • Throwing Itself Together
  • Something Shimmering
  • An Evening with Gelatinous and Glutinous
  • Cloth-Home Culture
  • The Other Here
  • Water and Clearing (Excerpt)
  • Conjecture a Cause: Seljavegur 2, Reykjavík 101, August 22, 2003
  • Notes on the Obsolescence of Islands
  • Eruption, Assassination (November 1963)
  • A White Stone
  • My Oz
  • Weather Reports You (Excerpt)
  • Introduction
  • Selection: 21 Reports
  • Morgunblaðið Newspaper
  • Note on Texts
  • The Nothing That Is
  • Notes on Icelandic Architecture (Excerpt)
  • One Hundred Waterfalls, Five Hundred Jobs
  • Iceland's Difference
  • Colophon