Luminous Modernism
Subtitle: Scandinavian art comes to America : a centennial retrospective 1912-2012
By: Patricia G. Berman
Contributors: American-Scandinavian Foundation; Scandinavia House (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780971949379
Subjects: Scandinavian Painting; Modernism (Art); Exhibitions
Other titles: Scandinavian art comes to America : a centennial retrospective 1912-2012.
Description: "An exhibition of paintings by leading Nordic artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, revisits a groundbreaking exhibition sponsored by The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) in 1912.
Notes: Exhibition organized by the American-Scandinavian Foundation and presented, in New York, at Scandinavia House: the Nordic Center in America, October 25, 2011-February 11, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Wildly, modestly moder: the North American reception of th Scandinavian exhibition of 1912; title: Denmark. Modernism ; Artists' biographies ; Plates and catalogue entries. Finland. Art in Finland around 1912 ; Artists' biographies ; Plates and catalogue entries. Iceland. Icelandic art in an age of independence (1895-1912) ; Artists' biographies ; Plates and catalogue entries. Norway. Norwegian art in 1912 ; Artists' biographies ; Plates and catalogue entries. Sweden. Swedish art in 1912 ; Artists' biographies ; Plates and catalogue entries.