Essays from a Lifetime in the Arts

By Ulf Linde

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 behalf: 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 essays: 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3753300098
• ISBN13: 9783753300092
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 10.2"