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Mamma Andersson : sleepless / Mamma Andersson ; with a text by Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated by Ingvild Burkey.
Fine Arts Library ND793.A58 A4 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andersson, Karin Mamma, 1962- artist.
- Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Andersson, Karin Mamma, 1962-.
- Andersson, Karin Mamma.
- Painting, Swedish--21st century.
- Painting, Swedish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume : color illustrations ; 31 x 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Sleepless
- Place of Publication:
- New York : David Zwirner Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- The Swedish painter Mamma Andersson draws inspiration from a wide range of photographic source materials, art history, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors, as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden. The paintings and works on paper collected in this volume explore atmosphere and mood through representations of masks, statues, and figurines, which take on a dreamlike, mythical quality in stark silhouettes. While recalling classical genres of still life, landscape, and interiors, this body of work, painted in 2021 and 2022, blends our sense of the past, present, and future. A companion to the artist's previous books A Storm Warning and The Lost Paradise, this limited-run publication features a new essay by Karl Ove Knausgaard. The text considers the history and evolution of the human desire to depict our surroundings, placing Andersson's doubled renderings --pictures of pictures -- within a tradition of painting not from life but from representations of life. -- Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- Text translated from the Norwegian.
- ISBN:
- 1644231239
- 9781644231234
- OCLC:
- 1401052186
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