The Danish avant-garde and World War II : the Helhesten collective


Kerry Greaves
Bok Engelsk 2019
Utgitt
: Routledge , 2019
Omfang
XXIX, 208 sider
Opplysninger
This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly abstraction, embrace of the tradition of dansk folkelighed (the popular) and its iterations of egalitarianism and consensus reform, called for the political relevance of art and interrogated the ideologies underlying culture itself. The group’s cultural activism presents an alternative trajectory of continuity, which challenges the customary view of World War II as a moment of artistic rupture.. - Dansk modernisme reconsidered -- 'What about culture?' : interwar politics, art criticism, and experimental art -- Helhesten and the war -- The new realism -- Spring is here : 13 artists in a tent -- Conclusion : thank you for being with us.
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Danmark : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02174
Dewey
ISBN
978-1138605893

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