Ulf Linde. Essays from a Lifetime in the Art

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Essays and studies by the pioneering Swedish art guru This volume presents the first English-language anthology of writings from Swedish art critic and museum director Ulf Linde (1929-2013). Linde played a key role in the early years of Moderna Museet, facilitating a major coup on its In 1961, he produced the first replica of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass , approved and signed by the artist himself. While Linde was a major voice in Sweden for over six decades, he is little known outside of Scandinavia.This anthology rectifies this oversight, compiling Linde's most rigorous and illuminating studies of Swedish painters and other modern masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Picabia and Giacometti, as well as a bevy of theoretical texts including his ambitious final essay on the art of drawing. The volume is generously illustrated and features an introduction by Olle Granath, also a former director of Moderna Museet.