Course Plan and Syllabus 2014 Course Code: ISSHF1143

Course Plan and Syllabus 2014 Course Code: ISSHF1143 Course Name: Art in Norway Course Leader: Mark Mansfield Time: 10:15-13:00 Date Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Required/Optional Readings Week 1 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 Introduction and Visual Overview of Art in Norway - Overview of the course, readings, excursions, and other logistics Kent, Neil. Introduction, The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1700-1940. London: Reaktion Books, 2000. 8 15. Viking Art, Artifacts Viking art and its transformation Viking Art & Artifacts - Excursion to Bygdøy to the Viking Ship Museum Norwegian Stave Churches - Excursion to Historic Museum Grodecki, Louis. Introduction, in: Norway: Paintings from the Stave Churches. NY: UNESCO Publishing, 1955. 17-25. Akershus fortress - Excursion to the Medieval Akershus fortress. Gelfer-Jørgensen, Mirjam. Scandinavianism a Cultural Brand in Ed. Halén, Widar and Kerstin Wickman. Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth. Fifty years of design from the Nordic countries. Stockholm: Arvinius Förlag \ Form Förlag, 2003. 17-25. Week 2 June 30 July 01 July 02 July 03 July 04 Medieval art and architecture - The Romanesque, the Gothic, and the meeting of pagan and Christian traditions. Monumental works such as Trondheim Cathedral, Haakon s Hall, and Akershus. Norwegian folk art and architecture - The influence of vernacular buildings and folk arts, Rosemaling and acanthus carving. Patricia G. Berman, Norwegian Craft Theory and National Revival in the 1890s, in: Nicola Gordon Bowe, ed., Art and the National Dream. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993. 155-168. Folk dress, art and rural wooden architecture, - Excursion to Bygdøy to the Norwegian Folk Museum Renaissance & Baroque impulses in Scandinavian art ; The Gustavian Age (1770-1810); Nordic Neoclassicism - and the Karl-Johan Era (1814-1844). - Excursion to Royal Palace - Highlighting Karl Johan Gate and University buildings en route. Picturesque Neo-Gothic Oscarshall highlighting the integration of Norwegian art and architecture of the 19th century - Excursion to the summer palace of Oscarshall commissioned by King Oscar I and Queen Joséphine Martin Blindheim, Scandinavian Art and Its Relations to European Art around 1200, in: The Year 1200: A Symposium, exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. 429-467. Hegard, Tonte. Collecting, Researching, and Presenting Folk Art in Norway, in Ed. Nelson, Marion Norwegian Folk Art. The Migration of a Tradition. Abbevile, 1995. 238-247. Andreas Elviken, The Genesis of Norwegian Nationalism, Journal of Modern History 3:3, September 1931. 365-391. 1

Week 3 July 07 July 08 July 09 The Düsseldorf School - First hour in classroom; Nils Messel, Discovering the Mountains in Oppdagelsen av Fjellet, Oslo: Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, 2008. 101-147. Reflections of Nature: The Romantic Age of Nordic Landscape Painting & Midterm Review - Excursion to National Museum examining works of Dahl, Balke, Stoltenberg, Tidemand, and Gude. Torsten Gunnarsson, Introduction, A Mirror of Nature Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910), København : Statens Museum for Kunst, 2006. 10-37. Midterm Examination Torsten Gunnarsson, The Northern Wilderness Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 79-114. July 10 No Classes: Long Weekend -- July 11 No Classes: Long Weekend -- Week 4 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 Overview 19th Century Art and its legacy - the invention of \ arc of tradition. The ideals of the bourgeoisie; the idealism of the peasant. The development of the visual arts in dialogue with new ideals of both nationalism and art. Images of an Era - Norway ca. 1814. - Excursion to The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design Exhibition on Design and Fashion in Norway ca. 1814. Complementing the course survey, we will tour the permanent exhibition providing a chronological history of Norwegian and European style from the Middle Ages to 1905 and the Design and Craft from 1905 2005. National Romanticism in Art, Architecture, and Design; the Viking revival, the Dragonstyle possible excursion to Frognerseteren & Holmenkollen Tourist Hotel Glambek, Ingeborg. "One of the Age's Noblest Cultural Movements: On the Theoretical Basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement," Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 1, 1991. 47-76. Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism -The Skagen Colony, The Fleskum Summers; The Lysaker Circle and the Kristiania Boheme First hour in classroom; Excursion to The National Museum examining works of Fritz Thaulow, Chr. Skredsvig, Gustav Wentzel, Christian Krogh, Harriet Backer Kitty Kielland, Gerhard Munthe, Theodor Kittelsen, and Erik Werenskiold Public Art - Norwegian sculptors and public decorations, focusing on Gustav Vigeland Excursion to Vigeland Park & Museum Wichstrøm, Anne: "Gendered Representation: Asta Nørregaard's Upper-Class Portraiture 1890-1905," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 69:1, 2000. Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. Viking Revival and Art Nouveau. Traditions of Excellence, I (Red) McFadden, David Revere, Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980. Abrams, 1982. 47-86. Werenskiold, Marit, "Erik Werenskiold in Munich 1875-1881, Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift 68 :2, 1999, 81-98. 2

Week 5 July 21 July 22 Fin-de-Siècle or the 1890s: Neo-Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism and the early Munch - Excursion to the National Museum to see works of Halfdan Egedius, Nicolai Astrup, Harald Sohlberg, Edvard Munch Edvard Munch's Life and Works - Biography and artistic development Berman, Patricia G., (Re-)Reading Edvard Munch: Trends in Current Literature, in: Scandinavian Studies 66:1(Winter 1994). 45-67. Berman, Patricia G., Body and Body Politic in Edvard Munch s Bathing Men, in: Marcia Pointon and Kathleen Adler, eds., The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual Culture Since the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 71-83 and 195. Nils Messel, Edvard Munch and his Critics in the 1880s, in: Kunst og Kultur 77:4 (1994), 213-227. July 23 July 24 July 25 Week 6 July 28 July 29 Øyvind Storm-Bjerke, "Scream as part of the Art Historical canon", in Scream, 2008. 13-55. Munch's Paintings and Graphic works - Excursion to the Munch Museum and in the Botanical Garden for exhibition of Through Nature Gerd Woll, Introduction, in: Edvard Munch: the complete graphic works, London 2001. Modernism c.1900-1950 - The Scandinavian Matisse Pupils; Monumental Art after 1900; Jugenstil; New- Classicism; Industrial Arts & Functionalism Henrik Sørensen, Arne Ekeland, Per Krogh, Axel Revold, Alf Rolfsen, Jean Heiberg, Hugo Louis Mohr, Thorvald Erichsen, Ludvig Karsten, Arne Kavli, Inger Sitter, Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland, University Aula, Town Hall, Gustav Vigeland Museum and Park, Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum Norwegian History, Culture and Art Ambiguous Heritage 1940-1945 This lecture will be presented in dialogue with the Installation of 'Biography' by Elmgreen & Dragset at the Astrup Fearnley Museet. 'Biography' examines the conditions of exhibiting, altered readings and additional frames and layering of meaning. Excursion to Astrup Fearnley Museet Contemporary Art in Norway c.1950-2010 - Abstract Art, Conceptualism, and current practice Karin Hellandsjø, "Modernismen i Europa og Norge 1945-55. Gjensyn og tilbakeblikk" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 -(Engl.trans.) 111 114. Jacob Weidemann, Johs. Rian, Knut Rumohr, Jens Johannessen, Kjartan Flettemark, Bendik Riis, Gunnar S. Gundersen, Ludvik Eikaas, Jan Groth, Frans Widerberg, Marianne Heske, Bjarne Melgaard, Vibeke Tandberg, Olav Christoffer Jenssen, Odd Nerdrum, AK Spaces for Abstraction. Norwegian art 1957 75 Excursion to The National Gallery focusing on the abstract art and the works of Anna-Eva Bergman, Arnold Haukeland, Johs Ustvedt, Øystein,"The Story of a Masterpiece", in: Ø.Ustvedt and T.E.Aslaksby eds., Edvard Munch. The Sick Child, 2007. 105-151. Marit Werenskiold, Concepts of Expressionism in Scandinavia, in: Expressionism Reassessed Shulamith Behr, et.al. eds., Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993. 20-29. Gunnarson, Ingebjørg. "Tendenser i norsk etterkrigsgrafik" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 - (Engl.trans.) Oslo: Sprartacus Forlag AS, 1998. 99-104. Power Ekroth, Pissing on the Nordic Miracle in Eva Vanzella, Emanuela Di Lallo (eds.), Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Art, 2008, Exhibition catalogue published by Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. 91-96. 3

July 30 July 31 Rian, Inger Sitter, Olav Strømme Jakob Weidemann other central figures with ties to Norway. Contemporary Art 2000-2010 & Review for Final Examination Exhibition to National Museum of Contemporary Art: Aase Texmon Rygh. Modernism Forever! Final Examination August 1 - Reading List Berman, Patricia G. Body and Body Politic in Edvard Munch s Bathing Men, in: Marcia Pointon and Kathleen Adler, eds., The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual Culture Since the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 71-83 and 195. Berman, Patricia G. Norwegian Craft Theory and National Revival in the 1890s, in: Nicola Gordon Bowe, ed., Art and the National Dream (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), 155-168. Berman, Patricia G. (Re-) Reading Edvard Munch: Trends in Current Literature, in: Scandinavian Studies 66:1(Winter 1994), 45-67. Blindheim, Martin. Scandinavian Art and Its Relations to European Art around 1200, in: The Year 1200: A Symposium, exh. cat., (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), 429-467. Elviken, Andreas. The Genesis of Norwegian Nationalism, Journal of Modern History 3:3 (September 1931), 365-391. Ekroth, Power. Pissing on the Nordic Miracle in Eva Vanzella, Emanuela Di Lallo (eds.), Lights On - Norwegian Contemporary Art, 2008, Exhibition catalogue published by Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 91-96. Gelfer-Jørgensen, Mirjam. Scandinavianism a Cultural Brand in Ed. Halén, Widar and Kerstin Wickman. Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth. Fifty years of design form the Nordic countries. Stockholm: Arvinius Förlag \ Form Förlag, 2003. 17-25. Glambek, Ingeborg. "One of the Age's Noblest Cultural Movements: On the Theoretical Basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement," Scandinavian Journal of Design History. 1, 1991. 47-76. Gunnarson, Ingebjørg. "Tendenser i norsk etterkrigsgrafik" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 - (Engl.trans.) Oslo: Sprartacus Forlag AS, 1998. 99-104. Gunnarsson, Torsten. The Northern Wilderness Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 79-114. Gunnarsson, Torsten. Introduction, A Mirror of Nature Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910), København : Statens Museum for Kunst, 2006. 10-37. Grodecki, Louis. Introduction, in: Norway: Paintings from the Stave Churches. NY: UNESCO Publishing, 1955), 17-25. Hellandsjø, Karin. "Modernismen i Europa og Norge 1945-55. Gjensyn og tilbakeblikk" in: Adun Eckhoff (ed.), Fokus 1950 -(Engl.trans.), 111 114. Messel, Nils. Introduction, in: Edvard Munch and his contemporaries, catalogue, London, 1990. 1-26. Messel, Nils. Edvard Munch and his Critics in the 1880s, in: Kunst og Kultur 77:4 (1994). 213-227. 4

Messel, Nils. Discovering the Mountains in Oppdagelsen av Fjellet, Oslo: Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, 2008. 101-147. Hegard, Tonte. Collecting, Researching, and Presenting Folk Art in Norway, in Nelson, Marion Ed. Norwegian Folk Art - The Migration of a Tradition. Abbevile, 1995. 238-247. Kent, Neil. Introduction, The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1700-1940. London: Reaktion Books. 2000. 8 15. Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. Viking Revival and Art Nouveau. Traditions of Excellence, I (Red) McFadden, David Revere, Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980. Abrams, 1982. 47-86. Storm-Bjerke, Øyvind. "Scream as part of the Art Historical canon", in Scream, 2008. 13-55. Ustvedt, Øystein, "The Story of a Masterpiece", in: Ø.Ustvedt and T.E.Aslaksby eds., Edvard Munch. The Sick Child, 2007. 105-151. Werenskiold, Marit. Concepts of Expressionism in Scandinavia, in: Expressionism Reassessed Shulamith Behr, et.al. eds., Manchester: Manchester Univeristy Press, 1993. 20-29. Werenskiold, Marit. "Erik Werenskiold in Munich 1875-1881, Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift 68 :2 (1999). 81-98. Wichstrøm, Anne: "Gendered Representation: Asta Nørregaard's Upper-Class Portraiture 1890-1905," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 69:1 (2000). Woll, Gerd. Introduction, in: Edvard Munch: Prints from 1896, London 2001. Pg. 19-28. 5