Working through the past : Nordic conceptual art as a tool for re-thinking history / [Kjetil Røed].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Røed, Kjetil, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and history.

Art, Scandinavian.

Conceptual art.

Physical Description:

167 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Milano, Italy : Skira, [2019]

Contents:

Prologue. Avoiding historical amnesia through art p. 11

National History

Fragments of the past breaking up the present

Blind spots in the nation's memory of itself p. 25

Victor Linds /'// bring you home - Contemporary memory (1998) and the topography of collective counter-memories

Remembering two Histories at the same time p. 35

On Marianne Heske's Gjerdeløa (1980) and the parallax view of History

Opening up the past for the future: two glances from the space of the law p. 49

Trond Hugo Haugen, A national portrait Eidsvold 1814 (2014)

The construction and deconstruction of national landscapes p. 57

Andreas Bennin: A Nation Restored (2013)

Welcoming the phantoms of the colonial past at home p. 65

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Magic at the White House (2009)

The storyteller faced with the ruins of the past p. 73

Ismar Cirkinagic, Herbarium (2006-16)

Personal History

The distortions of memory as the shape of present identity

Cast of the past: Re-enacting the particularities of childhood spaces p. 85

Kaspar Bonnén: The Past Will Never Leave You (2013)

How to make art history your own: Re-enacting canonized work in intimate spaces p. 93

Markus Brendmoe, Munch etc (2011), Lotte Konow Lund, Lotte Konow Lund-collection (2009-present)

Taking care of the past and the other: The case of inserting yourself in a canonized image of history p. 107

Ole John Aandal, Samaritan (1994/2007)

Feminist re-enactments of the western canon through democratic hyper-translation p. 115

Kajsa Dahlberg, A Room of One's Own /One Thousand Libraries (Ett eget rum / Tusen bibliotek) (2006)

The vulnerable subject revisits itself p. 121

Gudrun Hasle, Gudrun's Life Story (2004)

International History

When historical ideas haunts us as sculptural forms

The aesthetics of noticing everyday things and the work beneath the surface of the work p. 133

A Kassen, "Carnegie Art Award 2014" (2014)

The distortion of symbolic memories of immigration p. 145

Danh Vo: We the People (detail) (2011)

The geography of thinking historically p. 153

Joachim Koester: Kant Walks (2003)

Postscript. Traumas, microhistory and everyday historians p. 161

Jonas Dahlberg, Memory Wound (not realized)

Ahmad Gossein, Relocating the past: ruins for the future (2014).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788857232973 :

OCLC:

1110451677