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Nikolai Astrup : visions of Norway

Title

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.

Publication

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2021]
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
©2021

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Description

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, color maps, portraits; 29 cm

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"--

Alternative Title

Visions of Norway.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.

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.

Call Number

JQF 22-892

ISBN

9780300250855
0300250851
9781935998457
1935998455

LCCN

2020034953

OCLC

1121601607

Title

Publisher

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2021]

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.

Added Author

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.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-892

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