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Author Greaves, Kerry, author.

Title The Danish avant-garde and World War II : the Helhesten collective / Kerry Greaves
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in art and politics
Routledge research in art and politics.
Contents Dansk modernisme reconsidered -- 'What about culture?' : interwar politics, art criticism, and experimental art -- Helhesten and the war -- The new realism -- Spring is here : 13 artists in a tent -- Conclusion : thank you for being with us
Summary 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 amoment of artistic rupture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Helhesten (Group of artists)
Art -- Political aspects -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- Denmark -- History -- 20th century
Art and war.
ART -- General.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ART -- Art & Politics.
ART -- European.
Art and society
Art and war
Art -- Political aspects
Denmark
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020693307
ISBN 9780429467868
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9780429885907
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9780429885914
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9780429885891
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