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Known for her provocative approach to perception, identity, and the mutability of form, Horn uses water to mirror human experience and emotion. Born in 1955 in New York, Horn has spent decades pushing the boundaries of art to explore the complexities of identity, perception, and nature.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorn’s body of work spans photography, cast glass, and installation, consistently returning to the theme of fluidity. Her iconic series \u003ci\u003eYou Are the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e—100 photographs of Icelandic artist Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal submerged in water—reveals how water can both obscure and define identity. Similarly, her “liquid” glass sculptures play with the tension between solidity and fluidity, their colors ranging from turquoise to black. In an era marked by climate change and water scarcity, Horn’s works pose urgent questions about water as a shared resource and a symbol of impermanence and survival.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume not only offers a retrospective of her water-centered works but also connects them to broader global challenges with critical and poetic texts by Nora Burnett Abrams, Jarrett Earnest, Anne Carson, and the artist herself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295039697269,"sku":"9780847875580","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780847875580_fa8d6675-3941-4788-b3a5-545763bc3f5c.jpg?v=1786016340"},{"product_id":"9781644230268","title":"The Young and Evil","description":"\u003cb\u003eLauded by Jerry Saltz as “one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art,” \u003ci\u003eThe Young and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality was as problematic for American culture as figuration was for modernist painting.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese artists—including Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Alexander Jensen Yow, and their circle—were new social creatures, playfully and boldly homosexual at a time when it was both criminalized and pathologized. They pursued a modernism of the body—driven by eroticism and bounded by intimacy, forming a hothouse world within a world that doesn’t nicely fit any subsequent narrative of modern American art. In their work, they looked away from abstraction toward older sources and models—classical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical content—endeavoring to depict their own lives. Their little-known history is presented here through never-before-exhibited photographs, sculptures, drawings, ephemera, and rarely seen major paintings—offering the first view of its kind into their interwoven intellectual, artistic, and personal lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edited by Jarrett Earnest, who also curated the exhibition, \u003ci\u003eThe Young and Evil \u003c\/i\u003efeatures new scholarship by art historians Ann Reynolds and Kenneth E. 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With mask-like features—all jaws and noses—they emerge, in groups and pairs, out of the painterly atmosphere. Enormous, vibrant, and enigmatic, her works convey tangible yet ineffable tensions and ambiguities of human life.   Published on the occasion of the 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this catalogue features a long-form essay by Jarrett Earnest, who chronicles Schutz’s artistic process as she creates her most ambitious sculpture to date, Sea Group. Earnest explores the interconnections between Schutz’s long-standing painting practice and her more recent engagement with sculpture, offering a fascinating reflection on the artist’s thematic explorations, artistic inquiry, and the conceptual underpinnings of her work. 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