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The Danish avant-garde and World War II : the Helhesten collective / Kerry Greaves.
Fine Arts Library N7018.5.H45 G74 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greaves, Kerry, author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in art and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helhesten (Group of artists).
- Art--Political aspects--Denmark--History--20th century.
- Art.
- Art and society--Denmark--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- Art and war.
- Art--Political aspects.
- History.
- Denmark.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781138605893
- 1138605891
- OCLC:
- 1060577255
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