Wednesday September 08, 2010

Arts and Crafts

Sweden & America (1987–1999) featured articles on arts and crafts. For articles on the performing arts, visit Entertainment.

Scanned versions (in pdf format) are catagorized here.

ARCHITECTURE	ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE (book reviews)
Ferdinand Boberg (Autumn 94) (Summer 97)	Between Water and Heaven—Carl Milles: Search for American Commissions (Winter 87) Bruno Liljefors: The Peerless Eye (Summer 88) Carl Larsson: The Autobiography of Sweden’s Beloved Artist (Winter 93) Fjaestads Konst (Autumn 99) Journeys with the Global Family (Spring 93) Karin Larsson I Närbild: Allkonstnär och målarhustru frå A till Ö (Spring 99) Konst på stan: offentlig utsmyckning i Stockholm (Winter 98) Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s (Summer 98) Olga & Carl Milles: Konsten, Hemmet, Maten (Winter 99) Paul T. Granlund: Spirit of Bronze—Shape of Freedom (Winter 92) Statyvandringen: I Christians spår I Stockholm (Autumn 99) Stockholm Seen by Five Centuries of Artists (Winter 99) Stones, Ships and Symbols (Spring 90) Swedish Architecture: Drawings 1640–1970 (Autumn 96) CRAFTS AND DECORATIVE ARTS (book reviews) The Book of Wheat Weaving and Straw Craft: From Simple Plaits to Exquisite Designs (Winter 99) Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of Swedish Style (Summer 98) Carving Swedish Woodenware (video) (Summer 92) Creating the Look: Swedish Style (Spring 97) Dräktbruk och linnetradition I dalasocknarna Svårdsjö och Enviken (Autumn-Winter 98) Essential Swedish Style (Spring 97) Gamla möbler (Winter 96) The Magic Horse: “Devil’s Plaything” That Became a National Symbol (Winter 99) Making Swedish Country Furniture & Household Things (Autumn 94) New Swedish Style: A Practical Decorating Guide (Spring 97) Old Swedish Quilts (Spring 96) Poems of Color: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition (Summer 96) Porches of Pride in the Swedish Province of Hälsingland (Summer 99) Scandinavian Country, JoAnne Barwick (Spring 92) Scandinavian Country, Pamela Diaconis (Autumn 99) Scandinavian Painted Décor (Spring 91) Scandinavian Painted Furniture: A Step-by-Step Workbook (Summer 98) Sjutton Skansenhus berättar om Stockholm (Winter 99) Skansen: Traditional Swedish Style (Winter 96) Solveig Kristiansson, folkkonstnär (Summer 99) Swedish Carving Techniques (Summer 92) Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition is Change (Spring 95) A Swedish Legacy: Decorative Arts 1700–1960 in the Collections of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Spring 99) The Swedish Room (Winter 95) Swedish Sweaters: New Designs from Historical Examples (Summer 91) A Taste for All Seasons: Cooking and Design in Sweden (Autumn-Winter 98)
CARTOONS & COMICS
The Cartoon Art of Oscar Jacobsson (Spring 99) Gary Larson’s Comic Vision (Autumn 90) Gustaf Tenggren’s Golden Tales (Winter 87) Sven Nordqvist, Festus, & Mercury (Summer 91)
CERAMICS
Contemporary Ceramics in Sweden (Autumn 87) Kakelugn: Heating the Swedish Way (Summer 89)
DECORATIVE ARTS
Antikhuset (Spring 91) Ferdinand Boberg (Summer 97) FibreWall (Spring 90) Gärdsgård: The Swedish Longfence (Spring 96) Kakelugn: Heating the Swedish Way (Summer 89) Pergo Flooring (Winter 97) Rejmyre Lamps (Autumn 90) Sweden Sends Its Best (Autumn 87)
FABRIC ARTS
Folk and Provincial Costumes (Winter 91) Helena Hernmarck’s Tapestries (Autumn 92) Glimåkra Looms (Spring 89) Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Weaver (Summer 91) The Saga of the Röde Orm Tapestry (Summer 94)
FOLK ART
All Tradition is Change (Summer 95) Lindsborg’s Dala Horseman (Summer 87) The Swedish Wooden Horse (Summer 93) When Moses Became a Swede (Spring 98)
GLASS
Herring and Cheesecake in the Kingdom of Glass (Winter 98) Orrefors Faces the 90’s (Winter 92) Småland’s Glass Kingdom (Winter 87) All Tradition is Change (Summer 95)
MUSEUMS
The Art of Preserving a Swedish Heritage (Autumn 97) National Museum: 200 Years of Art (Summer 92) Richard Oldenberg, Museum Director (Spring 94) Sweden Sends Its Best (Autumn 87) Uppsala’s Gustavianum Museum (Winter 99) The Vasa Comes Home (Spring 90)
PAINTING AND DRAWING
Albertus Pictor: Sweden’s First Great Painter (Autumn 93) America Discovers Anders Zorn (Winter 93) Fred Somers, Swedish-American Artist (Spring 94) Gustaf Tenggren’s Golden Tales (Winter 87) John F. Carlson: American Landscapes (Spring 95) Jordi Arkö: A “Neo-Runic” Artist (Winter 95) Lindsborg and the Legacy of Birger Sandzén (Spring 93) Margareta Sjödin and Hanna Hellsten (Winter 94) Mona Starfelt: From Poems to Paints (Winter 93) National Museum: 200 Years of Art (Summer 92) Ray “Padre” Johnson (Autumn 92) Roger Tory Peterson (Spring 97) The Royal Artists of Sweden (Spring 94) Sweden Sends Its Best (Autumn 87) Ulla Wachtmeister’s Colorful World (Summer 94)
SCULPTURE
Duane Hanson’s People (Spring 91) Margareta Sjödin and Hanna Hellsten (Winter 94) Marshall Fredericks (Summer 98) Vasa Gunport Replica (Summer 91)
WOODWORKING
How to Build a Nyckelharpa (Summer 87) Jonsered Chain Saws (Summer 92) Swedish Boatbuilding in Yankee Maine (Spring 87) The Vasa Comes Home (Spring 90) Woodcarvers of Lindsborg, Kansas (Summer 92)