Odd Nerdrum: Kitsch, More than Art Tapa dura - 2011

Schibsted Forlag. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8251636388 . Tight square unmarked book with faint rubbing and a hint of shelflife; in illustrated boards with brown cloth spine. Scarce volume in nice condition. ; 11.1 X 9.6 X 1.4 inches; 376 pages; Kitsch is Odd Nerdrum's luxuriously produced apologia for the enduring relevance of the old master style. Containing writings and interviews by and with Nerdrum alongside hefty plate sections of both Nerdrum's own paintings and those by painters he sees as exemplars of a certain kind of figurative art, it is a bold attack on the foundations of modernism. In Nerdrum's view, what we call “kitsch” art is a consequence of modernism's “make it new” ethic. For Nerdrum, this insistence on novelty has permeated the thinking of institutions, critics, artists and the public, and has effectively suppressed what Nerdrum most values in a work of art: sentimentality,… Leer más

Oslo: Schibsted Forlag, 2011 4to. original brown cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked); pp. 376, with illustrations. Very heavy item (3 kg), additional postage may be required for domestic and international delivery. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. F-/None Issued.

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