Merz in the Mountains: Peripheral Art in a Peripheral Landscape – On Kurt Schwitters’s Norwegian Exile and Artistic Production in Møre og Romsdal, 1937–1940
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004388291_22" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004388291_22</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Merz in the Mountains: Peripheral Art in a Peripheral Landscape – On Kurt Schwitters’s Norwegian Exile and Artistic Production in Møre og Romsdal, 1937–1940
Original language description
In 1937 the German artist Kurt Schwitters went into exile in Norway together with his son Ernst. They had to go for political reasons: involvement in resistance activities in Germany and an increasingly unbearable situation under Nazi rule for modern art persecuted as “Entartete Kunst”. Here, landscape painting became a major focus in Schwitters's artistic production, which he did not regard as a diversion away from avant-garde “new art”, but rather as a continuation in line with his previous avant-garde work. The abstract landscapes were a painterly translation of functionalist-constructivist photography in so-called “New Vision”. Through its obvious absence of “Nordic” icons and elements popular in völkisch Nordicist representations of Norway, his landscapes also had an implicit political dimension.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
ISBN
978-90-04-38829-1
Number of pages of the result
34
Pages from-to
375-408
Number of pages of the book
966
Publisher name
Brill Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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