The Arts
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2019.03.22 | Biography, Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, The arts, Aarhus University
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968)
Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer is world-famous for his films on passion and compassion. Emphatic depictions of religion and especially women’s destiny in societies ruled by men run throughout his work. Meanwhile, a special form of realism, in which minor facial expressions are more important than larger spatial movements, inspires philosophical…
2019.03.18 | Biography, Kyle Frackman, The arts
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016)
Einojuhani Rautavaara is one of the best-known Finnish composers of the twentieth century. Perhaps most famous globally for his Seventh Symphony, the Angel of Light, he made use of many different musical styles and techniques in a variety of genres, and was not afraid to go against musical trends in composition.
2019.03.01 | Article, Unni Langås, Literature, The arts
Modernism in the Nordic countries
As elsewhere, modernism was a movement concerning the profound questioning of traditional values, modes of speaking and interpretations of subjectivity. A mass of Nordic literature was produced that could be said to be modernist, from Norwegian Knut Hamsun’s innovative novels in the 1890s, to the influential high Swedish modernism in poetry led by…