{"product_id":"mamma-andersson-the-lost-paradise-9781644230565","title":"Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume celebrates the Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's new body of work--melancholic, evocatively colored paintings that explore femininity, fantasy, and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up. The paintings utilize a selection of motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Resembling still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammersh i (1864-1916) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Part of a self-conscious effort to capture an experience rather than a specific event, the compositions are freer and more abstract and mark a departure from her earlier work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Splendid color reproductions bring the artist's textured brushstrokes, loose washes, and stark graphic lines to life on the page. The book also features a new essay by critically acclaimed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition presented at David Zwirner New York in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e is a Norwegian author. He became renowned for his six-volume autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been described as \"one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Since the completion of the \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Seasons Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMamma Andersso\u003c\/b\u003en was born in 1962 in Lulea, Sweden. She studied from 1986 to 1993 at the Kungl Konsthogskolan in Stockholm, where she continues to live and work.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445033832722,"sku":"9781644230565","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b0af131-a0ba-4427-9a09-366465c0f113.jpg?v=1729694041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mamma-andersson-the-lost-paradise-9781644230565","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}