Catalogue for exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of Asger Jorn - Danish text.
Tania Ørum, Marianne Ping Huang, and Charlotte Engberg (Hellerup: Spring, 2005), 28. 5. Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 24–25. 6.
This is also the focus of The Art of Asger Jorn in which Lars Morell, a Danish historian of ideas, analyzes Jorn's paintings. The author concludes that Jorn's paintings do not depict anything specific.
Asger Jorn, the Crucial Years 1954-1964: A Study of Asger Jorn's Artistic Development from 1954 to 1964 and a Catalogue...
First published in 1998, this volume is a study of Asger Jorn’s attempt to formulate the ‘first complete revision of the existing philosophical system’ from the standpoint of the artist in the period 1961-67.
The second publication in the Louisiana Library series, from Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is an in-depth look at that institution's impressive Asger Jorn collection. Jorn, a founding member...
Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914–73) was one of the most important exponents of modern Nordic art. This book provides an introduction to this highly unconventional figure of Europe’s post-war artistic avant-garde.
Asger Jorn: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
A key artist in the European post-war Avant-Garde, Asger Jorn worked within several, sometimes-conflicting art movements. He was central to the European development of expressive, abstract painting, and at the...
Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier's passing with an exhibition and an academic conference. The coinciding book will reflect both, the exhibition's content and the results of the conference.
Instead of making a mockery of these kitsch paintings, he articulates some of their inherent folk-art values. The exhibition is not well received. However, it has since become legendary.