Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution

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The Danish surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie has been seen within Danish art his- tory as an avant-garde artist provocatively and heroically challenging bourgeois sexual norms with his challenging and explicit images. This essay provides a slightly different reading of his work, situating it within a larger cultural and historical framework and discussing it in relation to sexuality, politics and aesthetics in Denmark in the 1930s and the 1960s.
Translated title of the contributionWilhelm Freddie: Kunst og den seksuelle revolution
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950
EditorsBenedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum
Number of pages13
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill | Rodopi
Publication date4 Feb 2019
Pages930-942
ISBN (Print)978-90-04-36679-4
ISBN (Electronic)978-90-04-38829-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Feb 2019
SeriesAvant-Garde Critical Studies Online
Volume2
ISSN2214-0808
SeriesAvant-Garde Critical Studies
Volume36
ISSN1387-3008

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Humanities - Wilhelm Freddie, Surrealism, Pornography, Visual Art, Cultural History, Sexual politics

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