The work of the internationally acclaimed artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973) has been exhibited throughout the world.
First published in 1998, this volume is a study of Asger Jorn's attempt to formulate the 'first complete revision of the existing philosophical system' from the standpoint of the artist in the period 1961-67.
Tania Ørum, Marianne Ping Huang, and Charlotte Engberg (Hellerup: Spring, 2005), 28. 5. Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 24–25. 6.
This is also the focus of The Art of Asger Jorn in which Lars Morell, a Danish historian of ideas, analyzes Jorn's paintings. The author concludes that Jorn's paintings do not depict anything specific.
The second publication in the Louisiana Library series, from Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is an in-depth look at that institution's impressive Asger Jorn collection. Jorn, a founding member...
This book for the first time reveals this largely ignored aspect of Jorn's work.
Asger Jorn, the Final Years, 1965-1973: A Study of Asger Jorn's Artistic Development from 1965 to 1973 and a Catalogue...
Peter Shield is an art historian, whose book Comparative Vandalism on these and other works by Jorn is also published by Ashgate.
Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier's passing with an exhibition and an academic conference. The coinciding book will reflect both, the exhibition's content and the results of the conference.
Instead of making a mockery of these kitsch paintings, he articulates some of their inherent folk-art values. The exhibition is not well received. However, it has since become legendary.
Asger Jorn: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York