Nationalism and the Nordic imagination

Description:

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Michelle Facos links the social and cultural dynamics in turn-of-the-century Sweden to the discourses of primitivism, nationalism, and symbolism. In the process, she sheds new light on a major area of study, the manifestation of modernism in Sweden. These painters - among them Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, and Prince Eugen - sought to produce a specifically national Swedish art. They focused on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales as well as customs, values, geography, and ethnography - anything they perceived as uniquely or typically Swedish. Politically progressive and culturally conservative, the National Romantic artists protested against the dangers they perceived in capitalist industrialism and urban expansion and promoted an egalitarian ideology centered on the Swedish/Nordic native culture.

subjects: Swedish Painting,  Nationalism and art,  Painting, Swedish,  History,  Painting, modern, 20th century,  Art, swedish,  Modern Painting,  Peinture suédoise,  Peinture,  Nationalisme et art,  Histoire,  ART,  General,  Painting,  Visual Arts,  Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Places: Sweden

Times: 19th century