Konstens nationella identitet: om tysk och österrikisk modernism i svensk konstkritik 1908 - 1934
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Main Author: Kollnitz, Andrea 1970- (Author)
Format: Thesis/Dissertation Book
Language:Swedish
Published: Stockholm Drau 2008
Series:Eidos 21
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Abstract:This dissertation investigates the reactions to German and Austrian modernism in Swedish art criticism between 1908 and 1934. It analyses the rhetoric of art-critical texts and examines the persuasive strategies and powerful verbal imagery of art criticism as well as its national interests. Earlier perceptions of a generally negative Swedish reaction to German art are revised. The analysis reveals a strong Swedish commitment to German art, which has been neglected or ignored by previous Francophile narratives in the writing on Swedish art history. In interpreting and defining German and Austrian art as both product and evidence of national character and as an antithesis to French art, Swedish art criticism is indirectly defining and manifesting Swedish art identity. The textual analyses thus show a complex interaction between modernistic and nationalistic ideas, not least concerning the artist's role.
Physical Description:574 S. Ill.
ISBN:9789163333415