Elisabeth berglin (2 Ergebnisse)

286 s. Illustrerad. Förlagets illustrerade pappband. Mycket gott skick. Akademisk avhandling.

Dek. förlagsband i gott skick. Prydlig namnteckning. Spikblad med Abstract. Lund 2000. Diss. 8:o. 288 sid. Rikt illustrerad, delvis i färg. / Summary in English: "A peasant painter and his world. Johannes Nilsson of Breared, Sweden" (9 pp.). Captions in Swedish and English. Med "Katalog över Johannes Nilssons motiv och bonader m.m." (sid. 237-286). (Baksidestext:) "En bonadsmålare och hans värld handlar om en folklig målare som förvandlade Bibelns budskap till bilder med nära anknytning till honom själv och den miljö som han levde i. Var han en konstnär eller en hantverkare? Var han en predikare eller estet? Använde han det folkliga mediet för egna syften eller gick han endast sina beställares ärenden? I denna bok får vi möta okända sidor av personen och bonadsmålaren Johannes Nilsson som utförde sitt livsverk vid sidan av de stora allfarvägarna i religiös konst och litteratur. Analysen omfattar kyrkböcker, bouppteckningar, kartor och traditionsmaterial vid sidan av bonaderna. Utgångspunkt är en idé om ett samband mellan tankevärld och bildgestaltning - att bonaderna tankemässigt och språkligt sammanhänger med den tid och den kontext där de producerats. Materialet tolkas med ledtrådsanalys, genreanalys och narrativa metoder. Elisabeth Berglin är verksam vid Etnologiska institutionen i Lund". - - - "A Peaseant Painter and his World. Johannes Nilsson of Breared. (Abstract:) The aim of this dissertation is to find relationships between folk art, an artist's personal life and influential factors originating in the context. Christmas wall hangings by the peasant painter Johannes Nilsson [in Sweden] (1757-1827) are the focus of the study. The fact that he had a special approach to the painting tradition raises two questions: Why did he paint the way he did? How can his hangings be interpreted? Theoretically, the hangings are treated as communicative. In the peasant environment, a motif could be interpreted without the restraints of the iconography of fine arts. I regard the hangings as texts whose interpretation depends on the readers' background with respect to tradition, knowledge, context, ideology, and world view. In interpreting the originator's intention several perspectives are used; a biographical one involving his personal life, a contextual one involving tradition, religious ideas and world views of the time, and a genre perspective involving the art. Sources of information for historical reconstruction are added to the information found in the structure and style of the hangings. Being a man belonging to the class of peasants, Johannes Nilsson's personal records are brief. All the same, it has been possible to create a close-up view of his life. His professional development came late in his life, although he was very talented. He never married and he was perhaps the only person to make his living solely by producing wall hangings. Accounting for these incompatibilities is the fact that he suffered from epilepsy. He never learnt to read well enough to be a registered reader in the records, although he had great knowledge of the Gospel and knew how to write simple texts.The physical world around Johannes Nilsson was the parish of Breared in the province of Halland [in southern Sweden] and the wide area where his hangings were in demand. Traces of the Breared context are found in his paintings. It was not a community of readers as many of the parishioners were illiterate like Johannes Nilsson. Therefore they preferred feast motifs and unsophisticated narratives of oral character. However, although Johannes Nilsson painted many of this kind of hangings, these were not the type of motifs that he himself preferred. His mental world was occupied with religious problems and he was influenced by revivalist ideas. The logic in his hangings points to the existence of of groups where these ideas could be spread, although there are no traces of such groups in th e material. Thus Johannes Nilsson used a traditional picture genre for pr.…