Bøger udgivet af SMK Forlag

Udgivet i anledning af udstillingen Picasso: fortællinger fra labyrinten på SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst med værker fra Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling.Bogen har både dansk og engelsk tekst

The catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition The Danish Golden Age World-Class Art Between Disasters at The National at National Museum Stockholm (28th February - 21st July 2019) and the National Gallery of Denmark (24th August - 8th December 2019). The catalogue includes 20 articles by prominent Swedish and Danish art historians, who present the most recent academic research on one of the most popular eras in Danish art history. The research is supplemented with knowledge and insight gained in the editorial and curatorial process of both the book and the exhibition in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Thus, the book is introduced by a comprehensive overview article about the period by Karina Lykke Grand (University of Aarhus), which elaborates on the traditional, more idealised, narrative and the thematics that are typically presented in connection to the Danish Golden Age. Family life, citizenship, the Danish Art Academy, etc. are elaborated and challenged by various new readings and perspectives. How far the Danish Golden Age stretches is discussed, as well as, more undiscussed topics in art history, such as the female artists of the Danish Golden Age, colonialism the results of the new technical art history, the democratic revolution, nationalism versus internationalism, technology, Scandinavianism and Danish artists in Sweden. In addition, the catalogue focuses on the many artists who have been written out of the approved canon, not for lack of quality, but for reasons of realpolitik or identity politics. The catalogue, as well as the exhibition, has a chronological-spacial set up so that we follow the technical development and geographic movement between 1800 and 1860. This development can of course not be considered isolated, like art history has been inclined to do, but must be understood as closely interwoven with a wide range of societal conditions and changes. The catalogue is richly illustrated with approximately 350 paintings and photographies

Som Danmarks nationalgalleri rummer SMK en væsenligt del af nationens billedkunstneriske kulturarv. Her findes mange billedmæssige udtryksformer, der vidner om forestillinger, iagttagelser, tanker og erfaringer, som mennesker i den vestlige kulturkreds har gjort sig helt tilbage tilbage til 1300-tallet og frem til vor egen tid. Samlingen er meget omfattende, og kun en mindre del ad gangen kan vises i salene. Med de Highlights som denne bog præsenterer, ønsker vi at skabe nogle orienteringspunkter i den store samling.I udvalget findes centrale og uomgængelige værker fra den vesterlandske kunsthistorie. Det er kunstnere som Andrea Mantegna, Lucas Cranach den Ældre og Parmigianino over Nicolai Abildgaard, Eckersberg, og Vilhelm Hammershøi til Matisse, Emil Nolde, Georges Braque, Asgar Jorn og Robert Smithsom. Andre værker i udvalget, måske mindre velkendte og i visse tilfælde sjældent viste, må betegnes som hovedværker, der i kraft af deres kompleksitet og mange lag bliver ved med at udfordre os, vække undren og stille spørgsmål. Mikkel Bogh, Direktør SMK