Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau 2011. 293 pages, numerous black-and-white images, soft cover Series: Literatur – Kultur – Geschlecht, Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte [Literature – Culture – Gender, Studies on Literature and Cultural History], full series, Volume 60 ISBN: 978-3-412-20683-3
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Rebecca Horn is one of the most successful and multi-faceted contemporary German artists. In the last four decades, she has created a complex genre for which she has received numerous art awards, most recently in 2010 when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for the Arts, the Praemium Imperiale of the Japanese Imperial House.
Performance, drawing, installation, kinetics, video, film, photography and text are media with which she works. By referencing specific styles of art, Rebecca Horn also deftly positions herself in the cultural space and manages to write her way into the (primarily male-dominated) artistic discourse in a subversive, rebellious manner.
For the first time, this book examines Rebecca Horn’s work in its totality while focusing on her discourse on political, historical, social and media spaces.