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Lena Cronqvist is widely recognized as one of Sweden's leading artists. Since her debut at Galleri Pierre in Stockholm in 1965 she has exhibited extensively in Sweden and abroad. She is best known for her paintings but also worked with sculpture since the 1990s. Prints have also been a constant preoccupation and are here presented for the first time in extenso with a complete survey of all her prints from the years 1974-2009. Lena Cronqvist studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1959 to 1964. She has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts since 1977. Lena Cronqvist was born in Karlstad, the provincial capital of Värmland, in 1938.
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Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. Here readers will gain new perspectives on canonical giants such as Søren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman. Readers will also encounter popular favorites like children's writer Astrid Lindgren, and come to know the work of lesser-known masters such as the novelist Tarjei Vesaas and the painters Ernst Josephson and Lena Cronqvist. Wei...
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Una obra sueca, original, sobre los límites de la condición humana, el amor, la compasión... Su protagonista es un monstruo de feria con dos cabezas que consiguen comunicarse telepáticamente. La crítica internacional la ha calificado de obra chocante, conmovedora, terrorífica y que obliga al lector a leer una y otra vez.
Göran Tunström (1937-2000), der 1983 für seinen in viele Sprachen übersetzten Roman Juloratoriet (dt. Solveigs Vermächtnis) den Literaturpreis des Nordischen Rats erhielt, ist vor allem als begnadeter Erzähler und als ,fantastischer Realist' in die Literaturgeschichte Schwedens eingegangen. In den Feuilletons wurde er unter anderem "Garcia Márquez des Nordens" genannt. Die vorliegende Studie belegt, dass er nicht nur Geschichten entwirft, sondern dass er in all seinen Texten, ob in der Lyrik, Essayistik, Prosa oder Dramatik, vom Debut an Passagen der Sprachreflexion eingeflochten hat. Durch eine genaue Lektüre dieser Passagen versucht die Arbeit, die buchstäbliche Ästhetik des Worts im Gesamtwerk Tunströms zu rekonstruieren, die von einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem (göttlichen oder biblischen) Wort, über die Frage nach dessen Herkunft und (richtigem) Gebrauch, dem kindlichen Spracherwerb bis hin zum Nachweis bei literarischen Vorbildern reicht. Anhand dieser Rekonstruktion werden Autorgenese und Genealogie des Schreibens bei Tunström erfahrbar.
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Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by the avant-gardes. In this revisionary study, Leonardo Lisi argues that these models rest on assumptions about the nature of truth and existence that cannot be treated as exhaustive of modern experience. Lisi traces an alternative aesthetics of dependency that provides a different formal structure, philosophical foundation, and historical condition for modernist texts. Taking Europe's Scandinavian ...
Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author’s childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact youth, but comics and power are intertwined in a numbers of ways that go beyond concern for children’s reading habits. Comics and Power presents very different methods of studying the complex and diverse relationship between comics and power. Divided into three sections, its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with, reproduce, and/or challenge existing power structures – from the comics medium and its institutions to discourses about art, subjectivity, identity, and communities. The contributors and their work, as such, represent a new generation of comics research that combines the study of comics as a unique art form with a focus on the ways in which comics – like any other medium – participate in shaping the societies of which they are part.