Crime and refuge
By: Odd Nerdrum ; foreword by Hanne Nabintu Herland & Gregory David Roberts
Contributors: Herland, Hanne Nabintu, writer of added commentary; Roberts, Gregory David, writer of added commentary
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9789788299790; 9788299797818
Subjects: Norwegian Painting
Notes: Title and statement of responsibility from cover.

"Crime and refuge. When we began to study our father's work from the 1960's and onwards, we discovered that the bulk of it was about refugees. Thus, we decided to make an exclusive selection of our father's paintings. In his eyes, escape is many things. The situation of escape is to be ostracized out of time, out of fashion. Out of the social life. In all ... out of the political contemporary. The problem with the fleeing man is that he does not always find his paradise. Despite this, he can gain freedom beyond time and place, that can transform one to a significant creative person. It is typical for a man who has found this freedom to then be able to throw the contemporary off his back, and reveal something eternal. Öde & Bork Spildo Nerdrum"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Flesh and spirit  -- Michelle Hillestad; title: The rebellion against emptiness / Hanne Nabintu Herland --; title: The sacred rain -- Gregory David Roberts.