Description:
This colourfully illustrated book gives a broad introduction to the oeuvre and the life of the Danish CoBrA-artist Asger Jorn, one of the major exponents of Nordic Art. It will be published to coincide with Jorn s 100th anniversary in 2014, with the support of Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark.
The new book presents a selection of Jorn s most important artworks, as well as many original documentse.g. interviews, letters, photographs, articles by and about Jorn. The material is arranged in a series of chapters with brief introductions by the editor, each of them illustrating a crucial moment in Jorn s life or a work of particular significance for his career. Among the texts included are for example an excerpt from an unpublished book by his mother on Jorn and the founding declarations of "Host" group, CoBrA, "Imaginist Bauhaus," "Situationist International, "and the "Institute for Comparative Vandalism."
The book aims to illustrate the diversity of Jorn s artistic and literary production and reveal his highly ironic and poetic approach to various topics in art, politics and philosophy.
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Brief description:
Ruth Baumeister is a writer and architect and a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology.