Asger Jorn
Subtitle: restless rebel
By: concept, Dorthe Aagesen and Helle Brøns ; articles, Dorthe Aagesen, Ruth Baumeister, Helle Brøns, Hal Foster, Steven Harris, Niels Henriksen, Henrik Holm, Karen Kurczynski, Klaus Müller-Wille, Roberto Ohrt ; translations into English, René Lauritsen, except from German into English: Bronwen Saunders (Müller-Wille, Baumeister, and Ohrt)
Contributors: Aagesen, Dorthe; Brøns, Helle, 1973-; Baumeister, Ruth; Foster, Hal; Harris, Steven; Henriksen, Niels; Holm, Henrik, 1964-; Kurczynski, Karen; Müller-Wille, Klaus; Ohrt, Roberto; Lauritsen, René, translator; Saunders, Bronwen; Statens museum for kunst (Denmark); Museum Jorn
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9788792023537; 9783791353579
Subjects: Abstract Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Restless rebel
Notes: "A collaboration between Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, and Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen to mark the 100th birthday of Asger Jorn"--From colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Dutch and the German.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, from 1 March to 14 September 2014 and at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, from 28 February to 15 June 2014.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Peter Nørgaard Larsen; title: Introduction / Helle Brøns and Dorthe Aagesen; title: Asger Jorn in, on and about surrealism / Steven Harris; title: Art for the people / Dorthe Aagesen; title: From word-pictures to the wild architecture of the book / Klaus Müller-Wille; title: Human beasts / Hal Foster; title: Folk art, science fiction and the matter of painting / Helle Brøns; title: A thing finished is a thing dead / Ruth Baumeister; title: Fin des modifications / Roberto Ohrt; title: An abstract art that does not believe in abstraction / Karen Kurczynski; title: Vandalist revival: Asger Jorn's archaeology / Niels Henriksen; title: Poking tongues / Henrik Holm; title: Biography / Anna Vestergaard Jørgensen.