Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution

Rune Gade

doi:10.1163/9789004388291_058

Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

Abstract

The Danish surrealist painter Wilhelm Freddie has been seen within Danish art his- tory as an avant-garde artist provocatively and heroically challenging bourgeois sexual norms with his challenging and explicit images. This essay provides a slightly different reading of his work, situating it within a larger cultural and historical framework and discussing it in relation to sexuality, politics and aesthetics in Denmark in the 1930s and the 1960s.

Translated title of the contribution	Wilhelm Freddie: Kunst og den seksuelle revolution
Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950
Editors	Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum
Number of pages	13
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill \| Rodopi
Publication date	4 Feb 2019
Pages	930-942
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-36679-4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-38829-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388291_058
Publication status	Published - 4 Feb 2019

Series	A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries
Volume	2
ISSN	2214-0808

Series	Avant-Garde Critical Studies
Volume	36
ISSN	1387-3008

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Wilhelm Freddie
Surrealism
Pornography
Visual Art
Cultural History
Sexual politics

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Gade, R. (2019). Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution. In B. Hjartarson, A. Kollnitz, P. Stounbjerg, & T. Ørum (Eds.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950 (pp. 930-942). Brill | Rodopi. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Vol. 2 Avant-Garde Critical Studies Vol. 36 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388291_058

Wilhelm Freddie : Art and the Sexual Revolution. / Gade, Rune.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950. ed. / Benedikt Hjartarson; Andrea Kollnitz; Per Stounbjerg; Tania Ørum. Leiden : Brill | Rodopi, 2019. p. 930-942 (A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, Vol. 2). (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Vol. 36).

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Gade, R 2019, Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution. in B Hjartarson, A Kollnitz, P Stounbjerg & T Ørum (eds), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950. Brill | Rodopi, Leiden, A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, vol. 2, Avant-Garde Critical Studies, vol. 36, pp. 930-942. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388291_058

Gade R. Wilhelm Freddie: Art and the Sexual Revolution. In Hjartarson B, Kollnitz A, Stounbjerg P, Ørum T, editors, A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950. Leiden: Brill | Rodopi. 2019. p. 930-942. (A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, Vol. 2). (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Vol. 36). doi: 10.1163/9789004388291_058

Gade, Rune. / Wilhelm Freddie : Art and the Sexual Revolution. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950. editor / Benedikt Hjartarson ; Andrea Kollnitz ; Per Stounbjerg ; Tania Ørum. Leiden : Brill | Rodopi, 2019. pp. 930-942 (A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, Vol. 2). (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Vol. 36).

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