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Mamma Andersson : the lost paradise

Title
  1. Mamma Andersson : the lost paradise / Mamma Andersson ; with a text by Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated by Ingvild Burkey.
Published by
  1. New York : David Zwirner Books, [2021]
  2. ©2021

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Additional authors
  1. Knausgaard, Karl Ove
  2. Burkey, Ingvild, 1967-
  3. Andersson, Karin Mamma, 1962-
  4. David Zwirner (Gallery), host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
Description
  1. 57 pages : color illustrations; 31 x 24 cm
Summary
  1. This volume celebrates the Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's new body of work--melancholic, evocatively colored paintings that explore femininity, fantasy, and memory. Andersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up. The paintings utilize a selection of motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Resembling still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Part of a self-conscious effort to capture an experience rather than a specific event, the compositions are freer and more abstract and mark a departure from her earlier work. Splendid color reproductions bring the artist's textured brushstrokes, loose washes, and stark graphic lines to life on the page. The book also features a new essay by critically acclaimed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. The Lost Paradise is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition presented at David Zwirner New York in 2020. --Publisher's description.
Alternative title
  1. Lost paradise
Subject
  1. Andersson, Karin Mamma, 1962- -- Exhibitions
  2. Andersson, Karin Mamma, 1962-
  3. Painting, Swedish -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
  4. ART / General
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Translated from the Swedish.
  2. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the David Zwirner, New York, March 4-July 31, 2020.