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The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective
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by Kerry Greaves


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This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists' collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes' deliberately unskilled painterly abstraction, embrace of the tradition of dansk folkelighed (the popular) and its iterations of egalitarianism and consensus reform, called for the political relevance of art and interrogated the ideologies underlying culture itself. The group's cultural activism presents an alternative trajectory of continuity, which challenges the customary view of World War II as a moment of artistic rupture.

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  • Title The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective
  • Author Kerry Greaves
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781138605893 / 1138605891
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.8 in (24.89 x 18.03 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Library of Congress subjects Art and war, Helhesten (Group of artists)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018050606
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.03

About the author

Kerry Greaves is Mads vlisen Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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