Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination

This well illustrated book is a lucid introduction to the Modernism that came out of fin-de-siecle Sweden. The work is one of a few studies in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. A small group of Swedish artists espoused a politically progressive, culturally conservative form of nationalism. These artists - among them Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors, and Hanna Hirsch Pauli - produced a specifically national Swedish art by focusing on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales, as well as uniquely Swedish- Nordic values, geography, and ethnography.

By Michelle Facos, 1998, hardcover, 234 pages, 12 Color Illustrations, 98 B&W Illustrations, in English