STRINDBERG, AUGUST INFERNO PAINTING PICTURES OF PARADISE.
Author: Feuk, Douglas
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1991
No. of pages: 120
Illustrations: 32 Color Illustrations. 9 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8788978311
Biblio/Bio: Bios. Bibl.
Code: 6401
Price: $55.00
August Strindberg (1849-1912) is known as a prolific writer of novels and plays but he was also an extremely radical painter for his time. Strindberg turned to painting in times of upheaval in his personal life or when his capacity as a writer failed him. He saw the arresting landscape outside his native Stockholm as a metaphor for his inner turmoil and painted the waves, rocks and ever-changing skies in a vast array of compositions, colour palettes and moods. Although landscapes in subject matter, these works can also be seen as symbolic self-portraits offering an illuminating insight into the mind of this often-troubled genius. Strindberg believed that chance played a vital role in the creative process and explored this concept in his painting, photography and artistic writings. This was an individual and radical approach for the time but later became central to the theory of major artistic movements such as surrealism and expressionism.
Strindberg, August: PAINTINGS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG, THE. The Structure of Chaos
Author: Rosenblum, Robert
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1993
No. of pages: 56
Illustrations: 28 Color Illustrations. 13 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8788978494
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Bibl.
Code: 5317
Price: $49.50
Strindberg in Valencia - an odd collision of cultures? Here is the combination of this gloomy, tempestuous genius from Stockholm with a Mediterranean seaport fabled for its sunlight, gardens, and oranges. Here he is not represented in his usual role as a major playwright and novelist, but in one of his lesser roles, that of an amateur painter, mainly of the northern seas. The book includes photos of his paintings, which portrayed dark and chaotic visions of stormy skies and turbulent water for he experienced nature as something unstable, irrational, and potentially menacing. Within this turmoil, there often appear symbols of rest, hope, salvation. For the art historian, the question of where to locate the unique power of Strindberg’s paintings is a fascinating one. Given the cosmis mystery and darkness of his vision of nature, he seems, broadly speaking, to be a melancholy heir to the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting defined by the great master, Caspar David Friedrich, whose work, incidentally, was seen in a major retrospective at the Prado in 1992, a timely preparation for the experience of Strindberg at IVAM in 1993. A fascinating read as well as for the eyes !!
STRINDBERG: PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER.
Author: Hedström, Per, Douglas Feuk, Erik Höök, Agneta Lalander, and Göran Söderström
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 192
Illustrations: 103 Color Illustrations. 48 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound w/ jacket
Size: 11 1/2”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 300091877
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Cat. of exh.
Code: 4558
Price: $125.00
The literary works of August Strindberg are admired throughout the world, but few people outside his native Scandinavia are aware of his accomplishments as a painter and photographer. This book, written by eminent authorities on Scandinavian art, is the first to bring Strindberg’s dramatic and highly original artistic works to an English-speaking audience. Richly illustrated in full color, this book sheds new light on the achievements of this innovative and deeply troubled genius.
SUURET VENÄLÄISET MESTARIT JA KUVA JEESUKSESTA/ GREAT RUSSIAN MASTERS AND THE IMAGE OF CHRIST.
Author: Järjestäjät, Näyttelyn
Country: Finland
Language: English/ Finnish
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 200
Illustrations: 90 Color Illustrations. 2 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12” x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9518977267
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 4940
Price: $65.00
A change in Russian art began to change during the second half of the 18th century. Alongside the flourishing religious art, a new secular art emerged and rapidly became as dynamic. Russian art has always contained a powerful religious and spiritualist theme, the impact of which has only recently been fully understood. This exhibition will provide much new food for thought. A presentation of the stylistic and spiritiual relationships between iconic and avant-garde art.
SVEINSSON, ÁSMUNDUR ART SOUVENIR.
Author: Kvaran, B. Gunnar
Country: United Kingdom
Language: Enlgish
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 89
Illustrations: 50 Color Illustrations. 5 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 5 1/2”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781904945628
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 6742
Price: $21.50
Amundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), a pioneer of modern sculpture in Iceland, who drew inspiration from folk culture, myth and everyday life. He started out very traditional, mostly figurative and became more and more modern with time with abstraction towards the end of his life. Very accomplished work.