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