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Rebecca
Horn: Hardcover with dust jacket out of print
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In her Notebook Samarkand the artist Rebecca Horn registers everything she saw with her eyes and felt in her heart as she passed through one of the great cities of the Islamic world. All her senses flow into the images and texts that are collected here. Her notebook allows us to travel and to experience how a contemporary artist of the West encounters a city that was once one of the most beautiful and important cities of the East. She photographed in Samarkand during the summer of 2001, turned her photographs into double exposures, and painted over the images after returning to Europe. Alongside, she wrote magical poetry. Images and text merge into a narrative that has moved strangely close to us since September 11. Samarkand lives the life of a traditional Islamic city, sharing the same cultural landscape of its neighbour Afghanistan. Through the eyes of Rebecca Horn we experience the Uzbek capital and its people intuitively, sensing the Samarkand that is built on a mountain of gold.
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