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- ISBN 9783791381312
- Weight: 3010g
- Dimensions: 280 x 340mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Prestel
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This large-format, lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive survey of the fin-desiecle and modernist painting of Scandinavia. This book features an enormous variety of artists and works that explore the impact of Nordic geography, history, social mores, and national identities on the region s painters. Focusing on the core countries Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and the Danish-German border region, the authors present a thematically organized overview of Nordic art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from the most recent scholarship, the book considers the prevalent themes and subjects, such as landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, interiors, modern city life, and abstraction, and analyzes various works by artists such as Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Helene Schjerfbeck, Johannes S. Kjarval, and Sigrid Hjerten. It looks at the rise of modernism in Nordic art and discusses the artistic interaction between North and Central Europe. A final chapter is devoted to the significance of Nordic painting today.Comprehensive and authoritative, this beautifully illustrated book is certain to become the standard volume on Nordic art. "
Katharina Alsen studied art history at the University of Oxford as well as German and Scandinavian literature, theology, and philosophy at the University of Hamburg. Studies abroad led her to Copenhagen, Reykjavik, and Torshavn on the Faroes. Alsen was a scholar at the international research training group "InterArt" at Freie Universitat Berlin and the University of Copenhagen with a PhD project on staged intimacy. In addition to modernist painting of the Nordic countries, her research interests include contemporary performance art and curatorial theory. She is a regular speaker on art history and theatre studies.
