Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture
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Editor: Karin Wagner
ISSN 0348-4114
Theses and other studies by members of the Department of Art of the University of Göteborg
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Item Vincent van Gogh : studies in the social aspects of his work(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1983) Krauss, André, 1945-Item Tactile Pictures. Pictorial representations for the blind 1784-1940(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1998) Eriksson, YvonneItem Estetisk pluralism och disciplinerande struktur. Om barnkolonier och arkitektur i Italien under fascimens tid(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1999) Nodin, EvaItem En natur för män att grubbla i. Individualitet och officialitet i varbergskolonins landskapsmåleri(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2000) Wängdahl, LarsItem Konstliv i Göteborg. Konstföreningen, museisamlingen och mecenaten Bengt Erland Dahlgren(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2000) Nordstrand, Charlotta HannerItem Torben Grut. En arkitekt och hans ideal(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2000) Ekberg, MicaelItem "I skuggan av Halmstadgruppen". Konstnären Arvid Carlsson och Hallandsringen(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001) Fredin, IngridItem Särlingskap och konstnärsmyt. En text- och begreppsanalys inom den moderna konst- och kunskapsteorin(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002) Dahlström, PerItem Smålands medeltida dopfuntar. Vol. 1. En inventering, Vol. 2. Catalogue raisonné(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002) Borg, RaineItem Frida Kahlos bildspråk - ansikte, kropp & landskap. Representation av nationell identitet(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003) Zetterman, EvaItem Självporträtt. En bildanalytisk studie i svensk 1900-talskonst(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003) Mankell, BiaItem Memphis och den italienska antidesignrörelsen(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003) Kristoffersson, SaraItem Fotografi som digital bild. Narration och navigation i fyra nordiska konstverk(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003) Wagner, KarinItem Beundrad barbar. Amasonen i västeuropeisk bildkultur 1789-1918(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004) Stahre, UlrikaItem Föreningen Original-Träsnitt. Grafik och grafiker på ett tidigt modernistiskt konstfält(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004) Wallin Wictorin, MargaretaItem Den digitala konstens aktörer. En studie av datorintegrering i svensk konstundervisning(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2005) Vipsjö, LarsItem "Fosterländska bilder". Den svenska historien i 1800-talets illustrerade läromedel, historieböcker och romanfiktion(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006) Nodin, AndersItem Kvinnliga arkitekter. Om byggpionjärer och debatterna kring kvinnlig yrkesutövning i Sverige(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006) Werner, HelenaItem Barns estetiska läroprocesser. Atelierista i förskola och skola(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2007) Häikiö, TarjaItem Den romantiska postmodernismen. Konstkritiken och det romantiska i 1980- och 1990-talets svenska konst(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2008) Arvidsson, KristofferThrough a study of the reception that art critique gave the exhibition project Ibid. ( Stockholm 1982 1983 ) and the oeuvres of the artists Ola Billgren, Dick Bengtsson and Max Book, this thesis examines the way art critics dealt with the romantic in Swedish art during the 1980s and 1990s, the time when post-modernism was debated in Swedish cultural life. I reconstruct reviews on art as situated in a cultural field, with Pierre Bourdieu s terminology, where a battle on authority of interpretation is taking place. With focus on the romantic, characterised as an anomaly in post-modernism, it is possible to reveal, not only what the critics disagree on but also the common ground, that discursive horizon which they share. Using Michel Foucault s theory on discourses I study Swedish art criticism in the 1980s and 1990s as a discursive practise. I choose to focus on the romantic for two reasons. Firstly references and allusions to romanticism occur repeatedly in Swedish art during this time. The second reason is that post-modernism has an ambivalent, and therefore, from a discourse-analytical perspective interesting, relation to romanticism. On one hand post-modernism is anti-romantic in distancing itself from a romantic modernism, the latter including the idealisation of the authentic and original, on the other hand, romanticism is repeatedly referred to in post-modernism. Other aspects than those inherited by modernism is then being highlighted. Among them we find the fragment and the romantic irony. Critics influenced by post-modern theory, mainly post-structuralism, like Lars Nittve and Lars O Ericsson, define the art of Billgren, Bengtsson and Book as pictorial deconstructions of romantic notions of the creative self, the transparent sign, the immediate expression. In their eyes, the romanticism of these artists is not authentic but simulated. Billgren, Bengtsson and Book are using a romantic style with irony for the purpose of an immanent criticism of the artistic medium, of signification and subjectivity. Other more existentialist-modernist oriented critics, like Douglas Feuk, Mårten Castenfors and Ingela Lind, remark that stressing the deconstructive aspect of the work of these artists has resulted in a neglect of existential themes. According to these critics Billgren, Bengtsson and Book do not just refer to romanticism but are themselves romantics. The dispute on whether Billgren, Bengtsson and Book are authentic romantics or just using romanticism for another purpose extends beyond these particular artists. It gives us a picture of the positions vis-à-vis post-modernism in Swedish art criticism during the 1980s and 1990s. Romanticism is revealed as the denied other of post-modernism, something extraneous which it defines itself in relation to, besides modernism. However romanticism is also revealed as something internal in post-modernism, impossible to expel. By acknowledging the role played by romanticism in post-modernism, the notion of modernism and post-modernism as absolutely opposed terms is being challenged.Keywords: post-modernism, romanticism, modernism, art criticism, romantic landscape, romantic irony, fragment, deconstruction, simulation, quotation, collage, painting, Implosion, Ibid., Ola Billgren, Dick Bengtsson, Max Book, Lars Nittve, Lars O Ericsson, Ingela Lind, Douglas Feuk, PierreBourdieu, Michel Foucault.Kristoffer Arvidsson, Department of Art History and Visual Studies,Box 200, SE-405 30 Gothenburg.