Synopses & Reviews
Asger Jorn is one of the most admired names in Nordic art. A founding member of several major art movements from the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus to the revolutionary Situationist International, Jorn has produced creative works in collaboration with French cubist Fernand Land#233;ger and legendary architect Le Corbusier. The centenary of Jornand#8217;s birth will be marked in 2014, making this a perfect time to revisit his life and prolific body of work.
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Published in cooperation with the Museum Jorn Silkeborg in Denmark, this book uses more than one hundred full-color illustrations of Jornand#8217;s most important artworks along with letters, interviews, photographs, press clippings by and about the artist, and even excerpts from Jornand#8217;s motherand#8217;s unpublished book about her son to provide readers with a broad overview. Included are photographs of the artist with Pablo Picasso and Guy Debord; the founding declaration of the Situationist International and other art movements; a collection of quotes about Jorn;s home country, Denmark; and a failed dissertation submitted to the University of Copenhagen in the 1950s. Tracing the artistand#8217;s work through the early influences of Joan Mirand#243;, James Ensor, Edvard Munch, Paul Klee, and Vassily Kandinsky, the book also shows how Jorn ventured beyond painting with his later works in an effort to radically renew other forms of media, from printmaking and sculpture to ceramics and collage.
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The second publication in the Louisiana Library series, from Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is an in-depth look at that institution's impressive Asger Jorn collection. Jorn, a founding member of COBRA (an acronym for Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam), remains one of Denmark's most influential painters. He was also a founding member, with Guy Debord, of the Situationist International (SI). There has been a tendency to view Debord as the sole motivating figure behind the SI, but while Debord's role was indisputably central, Jorn's influence should not be underestimated. In his four years of activity with the group (1957-1961), Jorn not only continued to make some of his best paintings, he also assisted in the editing of the movement's journal, Internationale Situationniste. This volume provides an introduction to the life and work of this key figure of the European postwar art scene and is illustrated with color reproductions of the museum's entire Jorn collection.
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Edited by Jacob Wamberg, Michael Juul Holm, Poul Erik T0jner. Text by Helle Br0ns.
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This colourfully illustrated book gives a broad introduction to the oeuvre and the life of the Danish CoBrA-artist Asger Jorn, one of the major exponents of Nordic Art. It will be published to coincide with Jornand#8217;s 100th anniversary in 2014, with the support of Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark.
The new book presents a selection of Jornand#8217;s most important artworks, as well as many original documentsand#151;e.g. interviews, letters, photographs, articles by and about Jorn. The material is arranged in a series of chapters with brief introductions by the editor, each of them illustrating a crucial moment in Jornand#8217;s life or a work of particular significance for his career. Among the texts included are for example an excerpt from an unpublished book by his mother on Jorn and the founding declarations of Hand#248;st group, CoBrA, Imaginist Bauhaus, Situationist International, and the Institute for Comparative Vandalism.
The book aims to illustrate the diversity of Jornand#8217;s artistic and literary production and reveal his highly ironic and poetic approach to various topics in art, politics and philosophy.
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Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914and#8211;73) was one of the most important exponents of modern Nordic art. This book provides an amusing, rather unusual introduction to this highly unconventional figure of Europeand#8217;s post-war artistic avant-garde. Conceived as an imaginary museum of sixteen richly illustrated galleries, it shows the manifold aspects of Jornand#180;s oeuvre, and for the first time reveals the entire range of his artistic production. The text offers a scholarly introduction, followed by a series of diverting and#8220;short storiesand#8221; on Jorn. Drawing on original letters, interviews, photographs, press clippings, and even excerpts from Jornand#8217;s motherand#8217;s unpublished book about her son, they give insight into the artistand#180;s life as well as his charismatic personality, his relationships with fellow artists and his involvement with artistic movements such as
CoBrA and the
Situationist International. The stories range from presenting Jorn as a political activist and Marxist philosopher to more intimate details, such asand#160;his role as a father and his failed endeavor to receive a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen in the early 1950s.
Asger Jorn in Images, Words, and Formsand#160;is a long awaited and easy to read general introduction to the life and work of an equally important and original figure in 20th-century art.
About the Author
Ruth Baumeister is writer, architect, and a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Asger Jorn, a Bad Painter? / Press reviews of the first exhibition in Silkeborg
Paris, the City of Love and#160;/ Surprising discoveries and new horizons
Thatand#8217;s the Way You Were . . . ! / From the writings of Jornand#8217;s mother
On the Road / Insights into the daily life of a nomadic artist
Asger Jorn, a and#8220;Professor for Things in Generaland#8221;? / Refusal of a doctorate by the University of Copenhagen
The Synthesis / A leitmotif for thinking, living, and creating
Father Jorn / Dedications to Klaus, Susanne, Troels, Martha, Olga, Ole, Bodil, and Ib
A Word and a Blow! / The Cobra group and the Situationist International
Asger Jorn, Picasso of the North? / TheScandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism
Art and Politics / To every age its art, to art its freedom
Asger Jorn, Verbal Acrobat / The evolution and transformation of titles
Casa Jorn, Albissola / Refuge of a master world builder
On Everyoneand#8217;s Lips / Philosophical tidbits from Jornand#8217;s cuisine
Asger Jorn, a Sore Winner? / The refusal of the National Guggenheim Award
Jorn the Art Collector / A glimpse into the Silkeborg cabinet of wonders
Hope Dies Last / Impressions of the attending physician during Jornand#8217;s last days
Biography
Image Credits
Imprint