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- Jones, Mark Ian
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Vicke Lindstrand On the Periphery : Mid-Twentieth Century Design and the Reception of Vicke Lindstrand
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vicke Lindstrand On The Periphery is the first English language publication to examine the life and work of the Swedish artist and designer Vicke Lindstrand and his place in Swedish and Scandinavian design history. The richly illustrated text focusses on English language discourse on Swedish and Scandinavian Design during the 1950s and the reception and profile of Vicke Lindstrand. It reconstructs the context in which narratives and rhetoric emerged and analyses its effect on Lindstrand, between 1950–1970. Swedish and Scandinavian design are described in terms of a pared-down, clichéd aesthetic associated with 1950s ‘Scandinavian Design’, now held as a ‘construct’, continuously emphasising the same preeminent exemplars. Informed by extensive field study in Sweden, detailed archival research, informant interviews, object and text analysis, the book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the disproportional impact of a small actor-network associated with twentieth century English language discourse on Swedish and Scandinavian design. The author argues that this demonstrates the pervasive influence of the construction of a national ideal (Swedish design) that was loosely translated to fit a regional ideal (Scandinavian Design) by the formation of an exclusive filter that determined the fit of what was included in the promotion of a cohesive identity. This filter emphasised an ideology that shaped perceptions and has influenced the subsequent reception and visibility of individual designers. Not all designers were treated equally. Nationalist, regionalist and internationalist influences had an impact upon the critical reception of their work further complicated by past associations. The actor-network operated at the level of selective solidarity, which was exclusive rather than inclusive. Part II examines the consequences of this fit through an analysis of the position and reception of Lindstrand. Preeminent exemplars, familial influences and the agency of an actor-network were profoundly influential in shaping perceptions and determining taste in 1950s Sweden, presenting a filtered view of design from the region. Lindstrand was strongly affected by the activities of this network. An interesting outcome of this study was the realisation that our understanding of Swedish design is incomplete, and that there is another more pluralist aesthetic concealed behind that officially promoted and exhibited during the 1950s. This investigation brings unique and unprecedented readings of a peripheral individual in the context of English language representation, and of the Scandinavian milieu.
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- Lundén, Rolf
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Man Triumphant. : The Divided Life of David Edstrom
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A hundred years ago regarded, together with Carl Milles, as the hope of Swedish sculpture, David Edstrom is today more or less forgotten. Man Triumphant. The Divided Life of David Edstrom tells the fascinating rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags story of the young boy who grew up in Småland, Sweden, emigrated to Iowa, U.S.A., and hoboed his way back in 1894 to get his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. After twenty-one years in Europe—in Stockholm, Florence, Paris, and Berlin—he returned to the United States and settled in Hollywood. As a person of two cultures he found himself betwixt and between, divided in his allegiance equally to his mother country and his adopted one.A stubborn, uncompromising man Edstrom managed to produce sculpture qualitatively well above what the average artist of the time could accomplish. He received acclaim from the best of the contemporary critics of Italy, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden. And yet, gradually he was disregarded and finally ousted from the canon of art. Over the years he came to know a number of the key figures of the period—Giovanni Papini (and some of the Italian Futurists-to-be), Gertrude Stein, who wrote two portraits of him, and her brother Leo, Henri Matisse, Frederik van Eeden, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and his wife Margaret, Ellen Key, Ernest Thiel, Harry Chandler, Robert A. Millikan, Gloria Swanson, and Charlie Chaplin of Los Angeles. This book thus presents, from Edstrom’s point of view, the turbulent period of early modernism in Europe and the vibrancy of Southern California culture of the 1920s.Rolf Lundén is professor emeritus of American literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has written extensively on not only American literature but also other aspects of American Studies, such as the American influence in Sweden, literature and film, and business and religion in the United States.
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