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Title: On Kitsch by Odd Nerdrum ISBN: 8-2489012-3-8 Publisher: Kagge Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Odd Nerdrum is a man.
Comment: "On Kitsch", is a seashell when held to the ear revels romantic insights of this twentieth century painter, Odd Nerdrum. The Norwegian painter's masterful and detailed view of the modern art world is only surpassed by the crafstmanship he performs with his eyes and hands. Through interviews, speeches, critiques, drama and humor he explains why he is NOT an artist and insists that the avant garde was right in casting him out of the modernist's scene. Odd Nerdrum's battle for sensuality and longing for eternity pitted him against the Goliath that we knew as modernism; Odd Nerdrum is still alive, modernism is dead. Long live, "On Kitsch"!
Rating: 5
Summary: Odd Nerdrum's Kitsch: The Brilliant Lie.
Comment: "On Kitsch" functions as a manifesto for Nerdrum's peculiar philosophical and aesthetic beliefs about painting. It is a grand statement, albeit often a contradictory one. Many questions are raised: how can he on one page declare that kitsch is not about morality or great ideas, and then on another page state firmly that kitsch "serves life" is "something extraordinary that demands a great deal", and is concerned with "eternity"?
It seems to me that Nerdrum is trying too hard to convince us of things that we could accept with less aggrandizement. That is, he wants us to enter into the sensuality of material, to love craftsmanship and technical proficiency, to break with over-intellectualization and to allow eternity to be seen in the temporal. I agree with much Nerdrum has to say about modern art and art education. I believe he is a master painter and I believe he has a valid point of view that needs to be read by art students the world over (if only to counteract some of the bunk that we are taught). I don't, however, agree with him entirely. Many of his notions involve lacking logical bases and copious semantic juggling. I don't believe (as he vehemently states) his work is agnostic or amoral; quite the contrary. I think it begs the question of causal-morality and God-consciousness.
But you can mull these things over in your own mind after reading this book. It's great, and a God-send to those of us who know and love Nerdrum's work and want to delve deeper. "On Kitsch" provides the ideological background for everything the man has done, and gives keen insights that are certainly not accepted on art school campi around the world.
Read it, then look at Nerdrum's paintings again.
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Title: Odd Nerdrum: Postcard Book by Odd Nerdrum ISBN: 0967582601 Publisher: Forum Gallery Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings by Richard Vine ISBN: 8248901211 Publisher: Gyldenal Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: 20th Century Icons-Kitsch by Wayne Hemingway ISBN: 1899791973 Publisher: Absolute Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Artificial Kingdom: On the Kitsch Experience by Celeste Olalquiaga ISBN: 081664117X Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Odd Nerdrum: Paintings by Jan-Erik Ebbestad Hansen, Odd Nerdrum ISBN: 8203260632 Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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