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Dansk kunst 2
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Art of Karen Blixen
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Mary Bess Westenholz (1857-1947)
Karen Blixens moster Bess, Mary Bess Westenholz, spillede en altafgørende rolle for niecens gennembrud som forfatter. Uden mosterens venskab med den amerikanske forfatter Dorothy Canfield Fisher var Karen Blixens vanskelige debut med Seven Gothic Tales formodentlig aldrig blevet en realitet. En ikke tidligere benyttet tyveårig korrespondance over Atlanten mellem Moster Bess og Dorothy giver et fascinerende samtidigt indblik fra sidelinjen især af det tiår, hvor Karen Blixen tager hånd om sin egen skæbne. Fra et absolut eksistentielt nulpunkt i 1931, hvor hun blev tvunget til at forlade sit elskede Afrika, og til hun ti år senere var blevet en verdenskendt forfatter.0Mosteren skrev i 1...
The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays
This new study addresses the provocative essays of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world. Celebrated for her literary tales, Karen Blixen’s essays offer sagacious reflections on three significant challenges of the twentieth century: feminism, Nazism, and colonialism. Karen Blixen (1885–1962) contributed to topical debates in Denmark, particularly during the 1950s when her distinct voice on Danish radio became familiar to a nation of listeners. Some of her lectures, radio addresses, and newspaper chronicles were later published as essays and now constitute a distinct genre within her work. In this study, Blixen’s most important essays ...
Nordic War Stories
Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.
Painting in Stone
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity
Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."
