Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst.
Source at http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201709131311 The formative processes of collective identity and belonging inspired Benedict Anderson to write his ground-breaking Imagined Communities (1983). His emphasis on imagination and sodality in these processes also resonates in contemporary artistic pr...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/11770 2023-05-15T17:43:18+02:00 Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. Moi, Ruben 2016 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11770 eng eng University of Lapland Barents Studies Moi R. Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. . Barents Studies. 2016;3(1):32-65 FRIDAID 1511094 2324-0652 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/11770 openAccess VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kunsthistorie: 120 VDP::Humanities: 000::History of art: 120 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2016 ftunivtroemsoe 2021-06-25T17:55:29Z Source at http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201709131311 The formative processes of collective identity and belonging inspired Benedict Anderson to write his ground-breaking Imagined Communities (1983). His emphasis on imagination and sodality in these processes also resonates in contemporary artistic presentations of life in northern Norway. A rereading of Anderson’s thesis in relation to the arts in northern Norway, in particular the visual arts, may offer some new insights, both into the blind spots of Anderson’s analyses, and into the ways in which people of the North have recently imagined themselves. This article is the first to relate the art of Bjarne Holst (1944–1993) and Kaare Espolin Johnson (1907–1994) to Anderson’s theories of imagined communities. These reflections are also among the very first to focus in depth on Holst’s art, and to conduct a critical analysis of these artists’ work. The two artists complement and contrast each other in subject matter and in their idiosyncratic stylistics of scraping to light from soot (Espolin) and colourful anthropomorph-icing. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Benedict ENVELOPE(-66.585,-66.585,-66.157,-66.157) Norway |
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Source at http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:ula-201709131311 The formative processes of collective identity and belonging inspired Benedict Anderson to write his ground-breaking Imagined Communities (1983). His emphasis on imagination and sodality in these processes also resonates in contemporary artistic presentations of life in northern Norway. A rereading of Anderson’s thesis in relation to the arts in northern Norway, in particular the visual arts, may offer some new insights, both into the blind spots of Anderson’s analyses, and into the ways in which people of the North have recently imagined themselves. This article is the first to relate the art of Bjarne Holst (1944–1993) and Kaare Espolin Johnson (1907–1994) to Anderson’s theories of imagined communities. These reflections are also among the very first to focus in depth on Holst’s art, and to conduct a critical analysis of these artists’ work. The two artists complement and contrast each other in subject matter and in their idiosyncratic stylistics of scraping to light from soot (Espolin) and colourful anthropomorph-icing. |
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Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. |
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Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. |
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Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. |
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Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst. |
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imagining northern norway: visual configurations of the north in the art of kaare espolin johnson and bjarne holst. |
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