The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II

The Helhesten Collective
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-60589-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art and Politics

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 egalitarianism and consensus reform, called for the political relevance of art and interrogated the ideologies underlying culture itself. The group’s cultural activism presents an alternative trajectory of continuity, which challenges the customary view of World War II as a moment of artistic rupture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greaves, Kerry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.