Nikolai Astrup : visions of Norway / edited by MaryAnne Stevens ; with a prelude by Karl Ove Knausgård ; essays by Frances Carey, Jay A. Clarke, Robert Ferguson, and MaryAnne Stevens ; and chronology by Kesia E. Halvorsrud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevens, Mary Anne, editor.

Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- writer of preface.

Carey, Frances (Art historian), contributor.

Clarke, Jay A. (Jay Anne), contributor.

Ferguson, Robert, 1948- contributor.

Halvorsrud, Kesia E., 1987- contributor.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, organizer, host institution.

KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, organizer, host institution.

Waldemarsudde (Museum : Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrup, Nikolai, 1880-1928--Exhibitions.

Astrup, Nikolai.

Astrup, Nikolai, 1880-1928.

Norway--In art--Exhibitions.

Norway.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Art.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press.

Place of Publication:

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2021]

Summary:

"Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway will introduce this singular artist to new American and international audiences. The catalogue will follow the artist's life and career in roughly chronological order, situating his work within the history of his native Norway. It will showcase Astrup's early works depicting the landscape of Jølster and childhood home at Ålhus and culminate with his most dramatic paintings, which celebrate the midsummer eve bonfires that mark the festival night in June that merges pagan fertility rites with St. John the Baptist's Saint's Day. This catalogue tells the story of an extraordinary artistic life devoted to landscapes both sublime and personal. Astrup captured his environment as a means of expressing nature as a "dream reality" and created a distinctive national visual language. This beautiful book will bring the intensity of Astrup's palette, the magical realism of his landscapes, and the innovative nature of his prints to a wide audience throughout the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelude : Nikolai Astrup / Karl Ove Knausgård

Painting in dialect : Nikolai Astrup and the creation of Norwegian national identity / Robert Ferguson

"He paints his western lands as no one else painted them before" : the art of Nikolai Astrup / MaryAnne Stevens

Imperfect impressions : Nikolai Astrup and the art of woodcut / Jay A. Clarke

Crafting the landscape for art : Astruptunet and the artist's garden / MaryAnne Stevens

"Memory's landscape" : Astrup and his inner pictures / Frances Carey

Chronology / Kesia E. Halvorsrud.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 19-September 19, 2021; KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen, Norway, October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022; Prince Eugen's Waldermarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden, February 19-May 29, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index.

ISBN:

9781935998457

1935998455

9780300250855

0300250851

OCLC:

1121601607