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Island Zombie : : Iceland Writings / / Roni Horn.

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 ni...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Horn, Roni,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 43 color + 8 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 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
  • Keynote Speech, Class of 2006 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík
  • Weather Reports You
  • 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

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