August Strindberg: Painter, photographer, writer - Softcover

Granath, Olle; Campany, David; Sainsbury, Helen; Söderström, Göran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854375628 ISBN 13: 9781854375629

Verlag: Tate Publishing, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

While August Strindberg (1849 -1912) is well known to an international audience as a prolific writer of plays, novels, poetry, scientific essays and letters, his work in the visual arts has remained largely unseen. This beautifully illustrated book examines the paintings, drawings and photographs that display Strindberg's independent and radical approach to art, and his experimental innovations in photography. Critics have compared Strindberg's paintings with Turner's but also with those of much later movements such as Informalism and Expressionism. In his youth, working as an art critic for a Swedish magazine in the 1870s, he was one of the first in Sweden to show understanding for the Impressionist movement in Paris. In writings in the 1890s he anticipated ideas favoured by Dada and Surrealism. Strindberg's friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, asked him to write a catalogue essay for one of his exhibitions. Strindberg's letter of refusal was so eloquent that Gauguin asked his permission to use it in the catalogue. This correspondence is included in the book as well as new translations of his poem " Cloud Images " and his passionate manifesto " New Arts ! Or the rote of chance in artistic production ". Freshly commissioned essays on Strindberg's photography by David Campany and on his scenography for Mary Stuart by Göran Söderström complete this illuminating survey of a remarkable artist.

Biografía del autor:

Olle Granath, curator of the exhibition at Tate Modern, is former Director of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and a respected scholar of Strindberg's work. David Campany is Senior Lecturer in department of History and Theory of Photography at Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College. Goran Soderstrom is the leading expert on Strindberg as a pictorial artist.

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• Verlag: Tate Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1854375628
• ISBN 13: 9781854375629
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160