Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900-1960

INTRODUCTION She Is No Gentle Lamb in the Cave of the Werewolf: Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries SECTION 1:Critical Reconsiderations, New Languages of Interpretation 1. The Work of Juliana Sveinsdottir: Engaging Issues of Gender and Colonial Subjectivity 2. The Symbolic Abstraction of Else Alfelt 3. Women Pioneers of Abstraction in 1950s Norway: The Balancing Act of Aase Texmon Rygh, Inger Sitter, and Gudrun Kongelf 4. Movement and the Living Surface: Greenlandic Modernism, Pia Arke, and the Decolonial Legacy of Women Artists in Greenland SECTION 2:Interventions, Transmissions, Networks 5. Gabriele Muenter and the 1917 Exhibition of the Foereningen Svenska Konstnaerinnor and Vereinigung Bildende Kuenstlerinnen OEsterreichs 6. Modern Corporeality: Body, Movement, and Dance in Ellen Thesleff's Art 7. Women Artists in and around the Danish Journal linien 8. No One Creates Alone: Past and Present in a Common Reading of Artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba SECTION 3:Subversive Spaces, Collaborations, and Reclamations 9. Collaboration and Co-Habitation: Swedish Women Artists at the Turn of the Century 10. "Women Need Work, and Work Needs Women": Women Artists and Their Networks in Fin de Siecle Sweden 11. Shady Plants, Ecstatic Trees, and Vulva Seashells: Symbols of Erotic Nature in the Surrealist Work of Rita Kernn-Larsen and Elsa Thoresen 12. Anneliese Hager, Cobra, and the Camera-less Photograph SECTION 4:Subjectivities, Identity, and Self-Fashioning 13. Elsa Laula, Astri Aasen, and the Ascent of Sami Visual Sovereignty, 1904-1917 14. Emancipated Bodies: Anna Klindt Sorensen Paints the Female Nude 15. Elaboration of the "New Woman" Figure by Women Artists in Interwar Finland 16. Soft Bones: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and the Reconfiguration of Anatomy SECTION 5:Alternative Practices of Agency and Resistance 17. Dealing with Circles: Franciska Clausen and Her Position in the Group Cercle et Carre (1929-1930) 18. Surrealist Beasts: Greta Knutson's Strategy of "Performative Refusal" 19. The Representation of Lack, the Matter of Imagination: Hannah Ryggen, Aesthetics of Resistance, and Art against Fascism 20. Intra-Actions with Nature (and Beyond): Hilma af Klint, Else Alfelt, and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba