1st Edition
The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II The Helhesten Collective
By Kerry Greaves
Copyright 2019
238 Pages
8 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
8 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
8 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly abstraction, embrace of the tradition of dansk folkelighed (the popular) and its iterations of... Read more
Introduction; 1 Dansk Modernisme Reconsidered; 2 "What about Culture?" Interwar Politics, Art Criticism, and Experimental Art; 3 Helhesten and the War; 4 The New Realism; 5 Spring Is Here: 13 Artists in a Tent; Conclusion: Thank You for Being with Us
Biography
Kerry Greaves is Mads Øvlisen Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
