NATIONALISM AND THE NORDIC IMAGINATION. Swedish Art of the 1890s

Author: Michelle Facos
Country: New Jersey
Language: English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 234
Illustrations: 12 Color Illustrations. 98 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 520206266
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 3219

Price: $65.00

This well illustrated book is a lucid introduction to the Modernism that came out of fin-de-siecle Sweden. The work is one of a few studies in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. A small group of Swedish artists espoused a politically progressive, culturally conservative form of nationalism. These artists - among them Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors, and Hanna Hirsch Pauli - produced a specifically national Swedish art by focusing on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales, as well as uniquely Swedish- Nordic values, geography, and ethnography.