Det universella språket : efterkrigstidens abstrakta konst = The universal language : post-war abstract art / redaktör, Kristoffer Arvidsson ; författare, Kristoffer Arvidsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arvidsson, Kristoffer, author, editor.

Contributor:

Göteborgs konstmuseum.

Series:

Skiascope ; 9.

Skiascope ; 9

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Art, Abstract--History--20th century.

Art, Abstract.

Art, Abstract--Sweden--History--20th century.

Art, Abstract--Sweden--20th century--Exhibitions.

History.

Sweden.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

532 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Universal language : post-war abstract art.

Place of Publication:

Göteborg : Göteborg Konstmuseum, 2018.

Language Note:

Parallel text in Swedish and English.

Summary:

"In the post-war decades, abstraction dominated the international art scene. Abstract was synonymous with modern, but abstraction was also regarded as a universal language that had refined art's actual content, consisting of colour and form relationships. On the basis of the exhibition history of Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg Art Gallery, Moderna Museet, and Liljevalchs Art Gallery for the period 1945-70, Kristoffer Arvidsson explores the concepts of what is national and international, culturally specific and universal in art. Which values and ideas were associated with abstract expression? Why was it so dominant and how could it so suddenly lose its interpretative prerogative in the early sixties?" --Back cover.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, held at the Gothenburg Museum of Art June 13-November 11 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

In connection with the exhibition "Det universella språket: efterkrigstidens abstrakta konst" held at Gothenburg Museum of Art, June 13 - November 11, 2018.

ISBN:

9789187968990

9187968991

OCLC:

1048357442