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Jockum Nordstrom: A Stick in the Wood Book

Pseudo-naïve and funny, Jockum Nordström's works compress a bundle of simultaneous narratives in a single frozen frame. He says, "A single picture of mine may often be based on a multiple of originals. I am constantly looking at my immediate surroundings as well as books." Art, photographs, people, plants, architecture, patterns, textiles, sex, and history all play an important role in his compositions. His enigmatic scenes, rendered in drawings and mixed-media pieces in watercolor, gouache, and collage, seem at once old-fashioned and modern. Lucas Cranach and James Ensor are longstanding influences, as are folk art and Surrealism. His art seems to portray suppressed fantasies fighting their way into the consciousnesses of the flattened-out figures. Fantasy has the power to transform banal, alienating tasks into moments that shimmer with humor and poignancy. Essays by Annika Gunnarsson and Brian Sholis. Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Johannes Bobrowski, and César Vallejo. Clothbound, 9.5 x 13.5 in./96 pgs / 100 color.Read More

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  • 3865211429
  • 9783865211422
  • Annika Gunnarsson, Brian Sholis
  • 22 August 2005
  • Steidl Verlag
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 96
  • Bilingual
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