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Title
Scratching
Both
Walls
at
Once
,
film
still
.
Creator
Horn, Rebecca (German sculptor and filmmaker, born 1944)
Date
1974-1975
Cultural Context
German
European
Western European
Theme
Performance art
Body art
Video art
Video recordings
Motion pictures (visual works)
Film stills
Mythology (literary genre)
Myths (literary documents)
Fairy tales
Allusion
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Artists
Performance artists
Video artists
Filmmakers
Women
Hairstyles
Interior views
Rooms
Architectural elements
Interior walls
Walls
Windows
Eye-level views
Subject
Performance art
Video recording
Motion pictures
Film stills
Myths
Fairy tales
Allusions
Artificial limbs
Artists
Women
Hairstyles
Posing
Interiors
Rooms & spaces
Architectural elements
Walls
Windows
Description
Film
still
from
recorded
performance
. "
Rebecca
Horn's
early
performances
involved
her
strapping
surreal
prostheses
to her
body
or
wearing
elaborate
costumes
. The
allusions
to
fairy
tale
and
myth
were
unmistakable
but
rarely
specific
.
Since
then she has
produced
a
wide
range
of
poetically
charged
sculptures
and
installations
. In
certain
of them,
groups
of
everyday
objects
such
as
stiletto
shoes
or
binoculars
,
attached
to
gallery
walls
by
prongs
or
hung
from
wires
, are
set
in
spasmodic
motion.
"
(Caption
,
p.188)
; "The
concept
of
Body
Art
,
which
had
first
been
articulated
(as
'body
work')
in an
article
of
1970
by the
critic
Willoughby
Sharp
,
ostensibly
designated
a
genre
of
live
performance
,
following
modes
established
by
precursors
such
as
Yves
Klein
or the
Fluxus
performers
, in
which
artists
used
their
bodies
as their
materials
.
Mary
Kelly
asserted
that
such
apparently
radical
activities
compensated
audiences
for the
dematerialization
being
practiced
elsewhere
. The
comforts
of
artistic
'presence'
were
provided
in
abundance
, she
argued
,
however
transient
the
context
. In
effect
, the
form
relied
,
like
Land
Art
, on
photographic
mediation
.
Examples
range
from
Bruce
Nauman's
recordings
of his
audience-less
'performances'
to the
films
in
which
the
German
artist
Rebecca
Horn
investigates
the
possibilities
of
peculiar
body
extensions
,
cross-fertilizing
nineteenth-century
medical
prosthetics
with the
nursery
terrors
of
Heinrich
Hoffmann's
Struwwelpeter.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.187)
People Pictured
Horn, Rebecca, 1944-
Technique
Filmmaking
Work Type
Performance art
Body art
Film stills
Video art
Motion pictures
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.188, fig.96)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-04.jpg
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