Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for such works as "Pencil Mask" (1972), which looks like an instrument of torture, but which actually transforms the wearer's head into an instrument for drawing.

A half-century of Rebecca Horn's multimedia world-building

From her early body instruments and performances, through her feature films and kinetic sculptures to site-specific installations, drawings and poems, this volume covers the decades-long career of Rebecca Horn (born 1944), whose work constitutes a unified cosmos.