Nationalism and the Nordic imagination : Swedish art of the 1890s / Michelle Facos.

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Facos, Michelle.

Title & Author:

Nationalism and the Nordic imagination : Swedish art of the 1890s / Michelle Facos.

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xviii, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--New York University, Institute of Fine Arts).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
1. Swedish Artists in Paris -- 2. Nationalism -- 3. Rootedness -- 4. Primitivism -- 5. Richard Bergh's Art Theory -- 6. Symbolism -- 7. Synthetism in the Varberg Colony -- 8. Monumental Painting -- 9. The National Romantic Heritage.

Summary:

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Michelle Facos links the social and cultural dynamics in turn-of-the-century Sweden to the discourses of primitivism, nationalism, and symbolism. In the process, she sheds new light on a major area of study, the manifestation of modernism in Sweden.
These painters - among them Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, and Prince Eugen - sought to produce a specifically national Swedish art. They focused on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales as well as customs, values, geography, and ethnography - anything they perceived as uniquely or typically Swedish. Politically progressive and culturally conservative, the National Romantic artists protested against the dangers they perceived in capitalist industrialism and urban expansion and promoted an egalitarian ideology centered on the Swedish/Nordic native culture.

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ISBN:

0520206266 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520206267 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Painting, Swedish 19th century.
Nationalism and art Sweden History 19th century.
Painting, Swedish.
Peinture suédoise.
Peinture suédoise 19e siècle.
Nationalisme et art Suède Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalism and art
Schilderkunst.
Nationale identiteit.
Art 19e siècle Suède.
Peinture moderne Suède 19e siècle.
Nationalisme et art Suède 19e siècle.
Sweden

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Theses.
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203680
Call No.: ND787 .F3 1998
Status: Available

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