IN ANOTHER LIGHT: DANISH PAINTING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Patricia G. Berman, Autographed
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Autographed First Edition, published by The Vendome Press, New York, 2007.Description (adapted from the book cover's front flap and "In the Eye of the Storm," an article by Sebastian Smee in "The Australian," January 26, 2008)
Called "superb" by many critics, the beautiful landmark book, In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century, demonstrates that Denmark produced some of the period's finest, unrivaled painters between 1790 and 1910. It also established a national school of art that challenged the schools of France, Germany, and Britain. However, there have been few studies of this vital school of art. In Another Light is the only English volume that embraces it. Preceded by a Neoclassical flowering in the Danish Academy, the years 1810 - 1850 are known as Denmark's Golden Age. By1814 Denmark was emerging from its 1813 declaration of bankruptcy, the extreme tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, and the giving up of Norway from its extensive empire, but it remained an absolute monarchy until the European-wide turmoil of 1848. Recent exhibitions on the Golden Age of Danish painting and the "rediscovery" of the works of Vilhelm Hammershøi have heightened worldwide enthusiasm for 19th century Danish painting. Comprehensively illustrated with over 200 key works of art from the leading Danish collections, In Another Light vividly showcases the icons of the Danish Golden Age.AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Patricia Gray Berman is Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College. Dr. Berman is a major scholar in the field of Scandinavian art, specialist in the life and works of Edvard Munch, and also has focused her research and teaching on European art and world photography. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is the recipient of the Aurora Borealis Prize from the Nordic Council of Ministers. Dr. Berman is curator and catalog author of exhibitions at Davis Museum, Wellesley College; Equitable Collection; San Diego Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Yale University Art Gallery; and Museum of Modern Art, where she contributed to the catalog for MoMA's 2006 exhibition, Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul. She is also author of James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, published in 2002 by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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