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Swedish Ecstasy

Swedish Ecstasy

Hilma Af Klint, August Strindberg and Other Visionaries

by Christine OdlundStephen McNeilly James Brett and others
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Publication Date: 28/09/2023

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Sweden may be seen as a Protestant nation of great engineers and entrepreneurs, but the nation's spiritual life has long been influenced by a less official current, visible in its art and literature. Mysticism and esoteric speculation runs through the writings of some of Sweden's most important figures, from the 18th-century scientist, theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg to the turn of the 20th century with August Strindberg, known primarily as a novelist and playwright. He was also involved in alchemical experiments, occult photography and proto-expressionist paintings that verge on abstraction. In the same period we find art by visionaries such as Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson and Hilma af Klint. These visions continue to inspire contemporary artists such as Cecilia Edefalk, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef and Lars Olof Loeld.
ISBN:
9780300273052
9780300273052
Category:
History of art / art & design styles
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Mercatorfonds N. V.
Country of origin:
Belgium
Dimensions (mm):
271x211x16.52mm
Weight:
0.85kg

Briony Fer

Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art at University College London.

Julia Voss

Julia Voss is a curator, art critic, and professor. Her biography of Hilma af Klint was on the shortlist of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 and became a bestseller. She headed the Visual Arts Department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for ten years and has been teaching art history as an honorary professor at Leuphana University in Lüneburg since 2015. She lives in Berlin with her husband Philipp Deines and two children.

Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. She has a BA in Fine Art from the Canberra School of Art, and a MA from Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne; her paintings are in various public and private collections in Australia. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, she is now frieze editor-at-large and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history. She is also a screenwriter, the editor of a collection of writings on art and humour THE ARTIST'S JOKE, a novel, BEDLAM, and a children's book, THERE'S NOT ONE.

Daniel Birnbaum

Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art critic, the artistic director of Acute Art in London and former director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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