Café Dolly
Subtitle: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen : hybrid painting
By: edited by Annette Johansen, Anne Gregersen, Margrit Brehm ; texts, Margrit Brehm [and five others] ; translation, Annemette Fogh [and others]
Contributors: J.F. Willumsens museum
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9783775737180
Subjects: Modern Painting; Exhibitions
Description: In the year of his 150th birthday, the Danish artist J.F. Willumsen (1863-1958) is on his way to becoming an artist's artist. Recognized for his merits as a modernist in the 1890s, his late works have long been regarded as commonplace, self-ironic, and kitschy in his home country, whereas his oeuvre has remained largely unknown to an international public. In this way, the reception of Willumsen's late work resembles that of the figurative works from the thirties and forties by French artist Francis Picabia (1879-1951) before they were elevated to warrant sophisticated postmodernist reflection on painting in the late eighties. This book brings these two artists together with the American artist and film director Julian Schnabel and discusses the transhistorical similarities in their painterly strategies and explicit self-staging of their role as artists.
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at J.F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, September 7 - December 30, 2013.

"Curatorial concept: Claus Carstensen and Christian Vind"--Page facing title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, translated from the Danish and the German.