Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Larsen, Peter

Titel

"Eidsvold 1814" : fra visuell interpellasjon til nasjonalt ikon

Ist Teil von

• Kunst og kultur, 2014-10, Vol.97 (3), p.130-137

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There is an important difference between Oscar Wergeland's painting "Eidsvold 1814" from 1885 and his first draft from 1882. The article analyzes this difference in light of Michael Fried's notions of theatricality and absorption, describing the final version as a pictorial speech act, a visual statement in a tense political conflict. In 1885, "Eidsvold 1814" served as a rhetorical argument about constitutional principles. Eventually it became a national icon, a recognizable visual object representing the constitution and the Norwegian political system in general. The article describes this transformation and discusses examples of contemporary counter-images that appropriate and recontextualize the icon. [Publication Abstract]