DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL SCIENCES
Scandinavian Studies: Cultural and Social Perspectives KVL181
Course Unit 3: Scandinavian Art – from the Viking Age to the
Contemporary Art Market (7, 5 hec)
Literature
(Established by the literature committee 2015-06-16)
Books:
Andersson, Aron, Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden, Vol. 2: Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture,
Almqvist & Wiksell international, Stockholm, 1966:
- Chapter 2: ”The ’Folkunga’ Period Circa 1250-1363” pp. 88-152. (65 pages)
Edam, Carl Tomas (red.), Scandinavian modernism: painting in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden 1910-1920: Goteborg’s konstmuseum, Gothenburg 12 August to 8 October 1989, Rizzoli,
New York, 1989 pp. (15 pages)
Facos, Michelle, Nationalism and the Nordic imagination: Swedish art of the 1890s, Univ. of California
Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1998:
- Chapter 1: Swedish Artists in Paris, pp. 7-27. (21 pages)
- Chapter 2: Nationalism, pp. 27-46. (20 pages)
Graham-Campbell, James, Viking art, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013
Kent, Neil, The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries,
1700-1940,” Reaktion Books, London, 2000:
- Chapter 1: "Christianity, Spirituality and the Church,” pp. 16-29. (14 pages)
- Chapter 2: The Family and Sexuality,” pp. 68-119. (51 pages)
(Copy to borrow at the Student Office)
Monrad, Kasper & Conisbee, Philip (red.), The golden age of Danish painting: [exhibition,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 24, 1993-January 2, 1994, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, February 13-April 24, 1994], 1st ed, Hudson Hills Press in association with
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, 1993
Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet & Snodin, Michael (red.), Carl and Karin Larsson: creators of the
Swedish style, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1997
Wells, Liz, Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity, I.B. Tauris & Co: London,
2011, pp. 211-260. (50 pages)
Compendium:
Kent, Neil, The Triumph of Light and Nature. Nordic Art 1740-1940, Thames & Hudson, London,
1987:
- Chapter 3: "The Awakening of National Art 1830-1870", p. 59-77. (19pages)
Stokstad, Marilyn, & Cothren, Michael Watt, Art History, 5th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2013: pp.
441-444. (4 pages)
Varnedoe, Kirk, "Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Progress of Scandinavian Art", Kirk
Varnedoe (ed.), Northern light: realism and symbolism in Scandinavian painting, 1880-1910, 2. ed.,
Brooklyn museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1982, pp. 12-34. (23 pages)
Williamson, Paul, Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995:
-Chapter 8: Scandinavia 1170-1240, pp. 115-117. (3 pages)
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