{"title":"The Artist/Scenographer and the Museum Exhibition","authors":"Hedvig Mårdh","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1895306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1895306","url":null,"abstract":"Summary There are several professional competences involved in the creation of a museum exhibition. This article investigates the collaboration between the artist/scenographer and the museum. Further, it seeks to contribute to a historical understanding of such collaborations by exploring the work created by the Swedish artist/scenographer Lennart Mörk in the 1960s and 1970s. It analyses the arguments used to justify the involvement of an artist/scenographer, and looks more closely at the nature of the collaborative work that ensued when the two exhibitions Oskuld – Arsenik (1966/67) at Nordiska museet and Gustaf III (1972/73) at Nationalmuseum were created. The article argues that the recruitment of a theatre decorator/stage artist, as this group of professionals were referred to at the time, was part of a strategy that allowed the museum to realize complex exhibition concepts, while also making the display more emotionally engaging and accessible, something that was increasingly demanded of the museums at the time. Moreover, it challenged a traditional museum exhibition format, placing less focus on the authentic museum objects and more focus on sensory experience and aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114875339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover-title page","authors":"A. V. Rosen","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1931761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1931761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130992493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From One Day to Another: A Ballet Scenario by Leonor Fini","authors":"Rachael Grew","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2020.1825525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2020.1825525","url":null,"abstract":"Though predominantly known for her Surrealist painting, Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was also a prolific designer of sets and costumes and produced scenographic work over a period of 28 years from 1944 to 1972. Having lain in the shadow of her male contemporaries, in recent years she has come to greater and greater prominence, but her work as a designer remains relatively unknown. This may well be due to enduring hierarchies of ‘art’ within art history that accord scenographic design a lowly status. Or perhaps it is because many of Fini's projects made at least some use of period costumes and sets rather than innovative, avant-garde aesthetics. Whatever the underlying reason, this article aims to address this neglect and presents a ballet synopsis by Fini from approximately 1938–1939; one which never made it off the page onto the stage. It offers an English translation of this document, which has never been published to my knowledge, and seeks to situate it in the larger context of Fini’s work; specifically in terms of her engagement with the metamorphic body and the role of costume in achieving this metamorphosis.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132063920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Scenography and Art History?","authors":"A. von Rosen","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1923566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1923566","url":null,"abstract":"It has to be noted that the longstanding and complex concept of scenography pertains not only to theatre and performance studies, but also to design, architecture, technology and – last but not least – art history. For example, in Sweden where I live and work, scenography studies has been a marginalized sub-field of art history since the s. This special issue of Journal of Art History explores scenography’s current relevance to art history more broadly and looks into ways in which art history and scenography can interact and vice versa. The “Scenography and Art History” session that gave rise to this special issue was held at the NORDIK conference in Copenhagen, and was co-organized by me, and my colleague Viveka Kjellmer, both art historians at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. While the individual contributions in this special issue emanate from the NORDIK session, I will here discuss the most recent developments within scenography theory, and propose approaches that can hopefully be inspirational and useful for art historians as well as scholars from related disciplines such as visual studies. What brings the diverse articles in this special issue together is their capacity to unpack and exemplify the significance of a scenographic approach to art and related occurrences.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"1997 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128217420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jan Miense Molenaer’s early card players and the peasant heads after Pieter Bruegel the elder","authors":"Eva J. Allen","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1873414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1873414","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This essay proposes that Haarlem genre artist Jan Miense Molenaer created two paintings, only known today from photographs in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD). The pictures depict peasants; two are playing cards, others are observers. Molenaer plausibly used print prototypes after the designs of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, adding observations from life of his present day. The figures are the same in the two pictures, concerning their costumes and gestures. Some slightly differ in their size and emotional reaction in one work with the employment of an extra participant. Repeating protagonists from one painting to the next with little change was a workshop practice Molenaer undertook frequently after he dated his paintings in 1629. It is suggested the artist may have known the prints after the elder Bruegel’s inventions through the Antwerp print market, or more directly through Adriaen Brouwer.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129957146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover-title page","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1911074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1911074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121815635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troubling Peripheries: Pierre Restany and Superlund","authors":"Katarina Wadstein MacLeod","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1884597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1884597","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This article chronicles the French critic Pierre Restany and his 1967 exhibition Superlund at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden. Throughout his life and work Restany travelled the globe and engaged in local art scenes, often described as peripheries. But when did Lund, a town in southern Sweden, become the periphery, and with reference to which centre? When Restany engaged with the so-called peripheries in order to escape the art scene in Paris, he also brought with him Paris as a symbolic centre. This article explores how the critic and his exhibition conflate the dichotomy in art historiography between centre and periphery in the intersection between place, people and art.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129395494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fabric of Devotion: A New Approach to Studying Textiles from Late Medieval Nunneries","authors":"Ane Preisler Skovgaard","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2021.1873413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.1873413","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Recent scholarship on the nunneries of the Late Middle Ages has demonstrated that within these houses, textile work served as important devotional tools which might accompany prayer, meditation and worship. This shows that the production of woven and embroidered textiles in nunneries does not easily compare to any modern-day notion of artistic practice, and it is argued that art historians should take this into consideration when approaching these textiles. This article proposes a new way of analysing textiles from nunneries, based on the premise that within nunneries, textile production was a complex and dynamic devotional practice. The article analyses a series of textiles from Lüne Abbey in northern Germany, the so-called Bartholomäuslaken (1492), Katharinenlaken (1500) and Georgslaken (1500), to illustrate the claim that we should consider textiles from religious houses as material indexes of the devotional practice of nuns.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124164325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Task of Mourning – A Reflection on Mourning and Melancholia through the work of Tomas Lundgren","authors":"Erika Larsson","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2020.1852310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2020.1852310","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The Swedish artist Tomas Lundgren’s series The Task of Mourning (2019) consists of nearly-but-not-quite perfect reproductions of photographs from the first half of the twentieth century. Through painting inexact copies of photographic remnants from this time in European history, the series can be seen as a slow contemplation of this historical period. In this article, I discuss theories of mourning – as well as of the associated notion of melancholia – and explore ways in which these notions can be understood as processes that take place in the physical body as much as in the mind. In the same way, I look at the process of painting and the work of art as bodily acts. With Lundgren’s series as access points, the article engages with both mourning and visuality as embodied and affective processes – in which collective memory and personal experience co-exist within the same dimension. From this perspective, I discuss what takes place in the series as both a working-through, and a holding on to, ideas and affective associations related to this collective history.","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133283597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover-title page","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00233609.2020.1862522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2020.1862522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164200,"journal":{"name":"Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117124101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}