Odd Nerdrum: Kitsch, More than Art

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Kitsch is Odd Nerdrum's luxuriously produced apologia for the enduring relevance of the old master style. Containing writings and interviews by and with Nerdrum alongside hefty plate sections of both Nerdrum's own paintings and those by painters he sees as exemplars of a certain kind of figurative art, it is a bold attack on the foundations of modernism. In Nerdrum's view, what we call "kitsch" art is a consequence of modernism's "make it new" ethic. For Nerdrum, this insistence on novelty has permeated the thinking of institutions, critics, artists and the public, and has effectively suppressed what Nerdrum most values in a work of art: sentimentality, passion, pathos and the ...

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Kitsch is Odd Nerdrum's luxuriously produced apologia for the enduring relevance of the old master style. Containing writings and interviews by and with Nerdrum alongside hefty plate sections of both Nerdrum's own paintings and those by painters he sees as exemplars of a certain kind of figurative art, it is a bold attack on the foundations of modernism. In Nerdrum's view, what we call "kitsch" art is a consequence of modernism's "make it new" ethic. For Nerdrum, this insistence on novelty has permeated the thinking of institutions, critics, artists and the public, and has effectively suppressed what Nerdrum most values in a work of art: sentimentality, passion, pathos and the self-evident skill and emotion of sheer craft. By this latter value in particular, the kitsch painter is able to work according to knowable standards that painting prior to modernism has established—standards that are "more than art," for, as Nerdrum puts it, "the kitsch painter commits himself to the eternal: love, death and the sunrise." Kitsch is a manifesto that recruits figurative painters both old and new, such as William Dyce, Paul Fenniak, Sampo Kaikkonen, Isaac Levitan, Osiris Rain, Ilya Repin, Giovanni Segantini, Valentin Serov, George Tooker, George Frederick Watts and Anders Zorn, and situates their work alongside more than 70 of Nerdrum's recent paintings. Alongside essays, poems and plays by the artist, Kitsch contains an extended dialogue on the topic between Nerdrum and Maria Kreyn.

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  • ISBN-13: 9788251636384
  • Publisher: Schibsted Forlag
  • Publication date: 9/30/2011
  • Pages: 376
  • Sales rank: 562,056
  • Product dimensions: 9.60 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 1.40 (d)

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

    Definitive

    I already own four books on Odd Nerdrum's work and artistic philosophy, but I'm very glad I bought this one. As a late-career retrospective, it has a scope that none of the other books have, and the title, "Themes", describes well what its organizing principle is. As a skeleton to build the book around, it's delightful. It illuminates not only his obsessions in terms of subject matter, but also his approach to mediums and techniques and his working process. Add to that the enormous scale of the book, encompassing many same-size details of the work, and it becomes a necessity for any Nerdrum fan. For those looking for a simple introduction to his work, it's probably way too much, though.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 4, 2004

    Of Epic Proportions

    Just when you think the art of painting has become obsolete and irrelevant in the 21st Century an artist appears on the scene of heroic proportions that not only restores the credibility of the art form but he also reconnects us with our past and restores our diginity of being human.

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