The Artist as Polyhistor: The Intellectual Superstructure in the Work of Per Kirkeby

by Lars Morell

Overview

The expressionist, Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) is one of Denmark's greatest living artists. His works can be seen in the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. This book represents not only a chronological cross-section, moving from Kirkeby's earliest to his most recent work, but also cuts across the forms of expression, from drawing and painting to film, sculpture, architecture, and literature, with the focus being the connection between art and science in the work of Per Kirkeby.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788779341548
Publisher:	Aarhus University Press
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 10.06(h) x 1.17(d)

Table of Contents

Yet Kirkeby himself has proclaimed, oA picture without intellectual superstructure is nothing.o In The Artist as Polyhistor, Lars Morell provides the superstructure missing from other critical accounts by examining intellectual content and allusions in the Kirkeby oeuvre from eleven disciplinary perspectives u everything from theology to genetics and eros to crystallography. In addition, he has drawn on personal conversations with the artist, whose comments on the manuscript have also been incorporated into the final text.