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This wide and diverse survey of developments in modern Nordic visual cultures is a much welcome and overly needed addition to the growing, but as yet still relatively slim body of works available on a subject which in recent years has been enjoying an increased international scrutiny. That it is published in English will hopefully further its worldwide appeal and make both the book and its subject accessible to a new and varied readership. The term ‘hopefully’ is used however with some caution since it is not easy to identify what that readership might be. The huge, lavish and copiously illustrated production (237 colour images no less) has the appearance of a coffee table book, whilst the contents are decidedly academic and specialist in tone. This overtly scholarly intent is reinforced by a profuse use of academic citations and an imposing bibliography, but the absence of an index, the latter again more in keeping with a commercial publication. The general reader nevertheless may find her/himself bewildered by a vocabulary and style of writing which in its exclusivity speaks to the initiated, rather than those on the foothills of the subject and in need of guidance, and most of all by the absence of context. Even for the highly intelligent novice, the book provides no structured introduction as to its aims, ambitions or even more succinctly its field of enquiry, but instead catapults us into a speculative rumination on a contemporary art work viewed through the prism of a canvas by the Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, without any lucid formulation of a thesis to come. Swiftly the reader is thrown into the early decades of the twentieth century and beyond without an intellectual position or cultural foundation as support for what follows. The result is that one’s feet have commenced on shifting ground and the rationale for the book has throughout its near three hundred pages to be gradually inferred. The earlier sections attempt with great intelligence

Katharina Alsen and Annika Landmann: Nordic Painting: The Rise of Modernity