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Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art book cover

1st Edition

Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art

Edited By MaryClaire Pappas, Tonje Haugland Sørensen Copyright 2025
204 Pages 15 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 15 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 15 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume foregrounds new and vital scholarship shaping Scandinavian art historical research on the representations of the natural world. Contributors deconstruct the interlinking of people and land through critical readings of the Scandinavian representation of nature, bringing to the fore how the traditional focus on the landscape as a manifestation of temperament has tended to... Read more

 

1. Introduction

MaryClaire Pappas and Tonje Haugland Sørensen

 

Part I

Beyond the Nation

 

2. Nature without Nationality: Extreme Weather Painter Marcus Larson

Dan Karlholm

 

3. Frits Thaulow’s Winter Landscapes and the Joy of Friluftsliv

Øystein Sjåstad

 

4. Beyond the Churchyard Wall: Stave Churches in the Medieval Landscape

Stephen Westich

 

Part II

Nationalism and the Colonial Imagination

 

5. The Absence of Imperial Prospects: Colonial Ignorance in the Danish Art Historical Landscape

Mathias Danbolt

 

6. Polar Nature in Paris: François-Auguste Biard’s Arctic Landscape in the Museum of Geology and Mineralogy.

Katarina Wadstein Macleod

 

7. Reciprocity and Respect: Land-Based Artistic Practices in Response to Policies against the Deatnu River

Haylee Glasel

 

8. Decorative Landscape and the Politics of Personhood in Leander Engstróm’s Lappflicka

MaryClaire Pappas

 

Part III

Imagining Land as Resource

 

9. Afforestation and Photography in the Anthropocene:  Toril Johannessen’s “The Forest Case” (2019)

Synnøve Marie Vik

 

10. Site/Sight: Northern Nature, Swedish Resources

 Anna-Maria Hällgren

 

11. Looking for Lumber: The Legacy of  Art and Resource Extraction in Norwegian Landscape Painting

 Tonje Haugland Sørensen

 

Part IV

Curating the Anthropocene and the Museum

12. Curating the Anthropocene Roundtable

Gry Hedin, Monica Grini, and Inger Margrethe Lund Gudmundsons

Biography

MaryClaire Pappas is Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design, USA.

Tonje Haugland Sørensen is Senior Researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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