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Essays and studies by the pioneering Swedish art guru
This volume presents the first English-language anthology of writings from Swedish art critic and museum director Ulf Linde (1929-2013). Linde played a key role in the early years of Moderna Museet, facilitating a major coup on its behalf: In 1961, he produced the first replica of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass, approved and signed by the artist himself. While Linde was a major voice in Sweden for over six decades, he is little known outside of Scandinavia.
This anthology rectifies this oversight, compiling Linde's most rigorous and illuminating essays: studies of Swedish painters and other modern masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Picabia and Giacometti, as well as a bevy of theoretical texts including his ambitious final essay on the art of drawing. The volume is generously illustrated and features an introduction by Olle Granath, also a former director of Moderna Museet.
Review Quotes: Ulf Linde is a legendary figure among Duchamp scholars but his writings, in Swedish, have been largely inaccessible. This anthology makes the breadth of his work available in English for the first time, including essays on Duchamp and a host of other modern masters, including Picasso, Matisse, Picabia and Giacometti--and on topics ranging from jazz to Wallace Stevens. The book is sure to expand the enormous influence that Linde had on the cultural life of Scandinavia.--Francis M. Naumann ""scholar, curator, and art dealer""