Gustavsson, Anders: The folk-life artist Carl Gustaf Bernhardson

Gustavsson, Anders: The folk-life artist Carl Gustaf Bernhardson

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Portrayer of coastal life and coastal women in workday and feast day

This publication presents the most important features of the folk-life artist Carl Gustaf Bernhardson’s paintings to an international audience and places the paintings in their social and cultural context. The life style and world of ideas among Bohuslän’s coastal inhabitants of past ages have been visualized for posterity in these many paintings by an artist who knew this culture intimately. His own world of ideas, largely unknown during his lifetime, has now become accessible due to the many notebooks and poems that he left at his death. Women, environmental commitments, a longing for freedom, a belief in fate and a lofty self-image have shown themselves to be essential features of his inner world.

Anders Gustavsson, (1940-), professor of cultural history at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, 1997-2010 and senior professor since 2011. PhD from the University of Lund, 1972, then reader in ethnology at Lund, part time also in Gothenburg and Bergen; professor of ethnology, University of Uppsala, 1987-1997. His research has concerned popular religion, popular movements with emphasis on temperance and revivalistic movements, coastal culture, cultural meetings, tourism, border cultures, rites of passage, gravestone symbolism, memorial internet websites, popular paintings, fieldwork methodology.


Contents

Life history / Biography 7

Coastal women’s way of life and living conditions 13

The perils of the sea 21

Social realism 23

The conceptual world of the archipelago inhabitants 25

Aspects of source criticism and evaluation 37

Bernhardson’s world of conception 41

Women 42

Philosophy of life 45

Environmental interests 49

Self-concept 51

Concluding remarks 53

Sources and references 55

Manuscript collections 55

References 55

Life history / Biography 7

Coastal women’s way of life and living conditions 13

The perils of the sea 21

Social realism 23

The conceptual world of the archipelago inhabitants 25

Aspects of source criticism and evaluation 37

Bernhardson’s world of conception 41

Women 42

Philosophy of life 45

Environmental interests 49

Self-concept 51

Concluding remarks 53

Sources and references 55

Manuscript collections 55

References 55


ISBN 978-82-7099-634-6, 56 pp., hardcover
Format: 17x24 cm, vekt 0,4 kg, year of publication: 2011, language: English


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