Modern Norwegian Painting

Jon Fosse: Melancholy, W W NORTON & CO, November 2006 ISBN: 1564784517
Art-school angst in the 1850s inspires modern writer.Lars Hertervig, a young Quaker from a small Norwegian island, has been sent by a patron to study landscape painting in Dusseldorf. Lars lies on his bed in a rented room, on the day his prominent teacher, Hans Gude, plans to critique his work. Lars avoids the studio, fearing that Gude will tell him he can't paint and must return home. Mentally, Lars relives the time his landlady's 15-year-old daughter, Helene, let her hair down for him. He fancies they're in love. But Helene has just told him her uncle wants to evict him. Helene seems indifferent and Lars alternately berates her and tries to get her to run away with him. In an artist's tavern, Malkasten, Lars accuses a classmate, Alfred, one of many colleagues who in Lars's opinion can't paint, of stealing his pipe. He's menaced by delusions of black and white clothes that surround him and almost smother him. By now, the reader wishes they would. Wandering the streets with his suitcases, Lars encounters Gude, who compliments his talent. But Lars's paranoia admits no praise. Alfred lures Lars back to Malkasten, claiming Helene is awaiting him there. He's greeted instead by a jeering section of bad painters. The next segment details a day at Gaustad asylum, where Lars has been forbidden to paint. In his doctor's view, art, masturbation and maligning the virtue of the world's women are the three pillars of Lars's insanity. Lars contemplates escape. He's no more popular in the madhouse than in art school, and we last see him being pelted with snowballs by fellow inmates as he skulks off. The third section concerns a reclusive writer, Vidme, who in 1991 is inspired to write a novel about Hertervig. Or maybe not. The stream-of-consciousness narration, a minute-by-minute reportage of obsessive, repetitive thoughts, is a numbing rendition of the banality of anxiety.This author's own madness lies in tedium. (Kirkus Reviews)

NEW 216X24X142 217 mm x 142 mm x 22 mm

[SW: Fiction / General]

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Hodin, J. P. (Josef Paul): Edvard Munch, London and New York Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser. 1985 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0500201226
0500201226 Fine

216 pp., illus. (some col.), bib., index; 22 cm. "168 illustrations, 30 in color." Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated. "Widely known for his much-reproduced painting 'The Scream', Edvard Munch, the great Norwegian painter, was pioneer of an art which depicted the conflicts of modern man. The initiator of the movement known as Expressionism, Munch's early work was greeted with indignation, incomprehension and abuse, but he achieved recognition and was considered a leader of the new art." - Publisher. Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Scandinavian Movements::Symbolism]

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ED. DE NORSKE BOKKLUBBENE: NORVEGE. WINTER LAND, NORWEGIAN VISIONS OF WINTER ( Gewicht = 1456 Gramm ) OSLO 1993

GRAND IN 4. BR [BE]. 226 PP. ENV 150 ILL DONT QQS EN NOIR. [BE]- ISBN : 8252526004 -

[SW: PEINTURE MODERNE MODERN PAINTING]

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Gordon, Cindi: PAINTING TINY TREASURES, Cincinnati, Ohio North Light Books 2000
ISBN: 0-89134-992-8 As New

From Booklist Gordon translates the natural attraction to miniature paintings into modern-day techniques, borrowing from a number of ethnic-specific folk painting crafts--the Russian khokhloma and the Norwegian Hallingdal, to name just two. After an abbreviated foray into supplies, brushes, and prep work, she expends most of her energy and pages on 14 projects, from a compact and comb to faux-gilded candlesticks. Every one includes an all-in-color palette (acrylic paints preferred), list of supplies, patterns to copy, and close-ups of particularly intricate details. Remember, however, that smaller doesn't necessarily mean quick to complete. Paperback 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches

[SW: Crafts & Hobbies, House & Home, Art - Techniques]

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