April 2020
This special issue of Art History looks at art from Denmark, a nation with a long and varied imperial history, to explore how it functioned through pan-European and, eventually, global networks. Not simply a question of adding Denmark to the map of world art, however, instead it serves as a case study for thinking more broadly about the discipline of art history and its conceptions of place and time: not art in Denmark but rather art through Denmark.
Thinking through Denmark: Connected Art Histories
Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art from Denmark
Embracing Cubism: Poul Henningsen’s Negotiations of Danish National Traditions and International Modernism
Picturing and Counter-Picturing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colonial Greenland
Fair Game: The Cross-Cultural Chase in Eighteenth-Century Denmark
In Search of Christian IV’s Royal Frederiksborg
On Magic, Time and Exchange: The Arts of Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and Anna of Denmark-Norway
Recycled Sculptures, Reburied Bodies: Jørgen Rosenkrantz and the Reframed Alabaster Altarpiece in Hornslet Church
Gunhild’s Cross: Seeing a Romanesque Masterwork through Denmark
Afterword: A Global Perspective on Denmark in the World