Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism
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The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism (
.It was founded in 1961 by the
University of Lund, Sweden.[1] Jorn had recently left the Situationist International, although he continued to support them financially. The stated purpose of the institute was to throw new light upon the Scandinavian culture in the age of migrations and Vikings. For several years, Jorn toured around Scandinavia and Europe with photographer Gérard Franceschi, former photographer for French writer and onetime culture minister André Malraux on his Musée imaginaire project, photographing ancient, Romanesque, Scandinavian, and Gothic figurative and decorative motifs in order to trace the connections between Scandinavian and European motifs. Jacqueline de Jong
was also involved in several of these excursions.
In 1965, the
Silkeborg Kunstmuseum
, home of Jorn's art collection and archives. Jorn continued to publish articles and books on the subject of Nordic art as a tradition independent of what he called the "Classical-Latin" tradition.
A publication series of theoretical texts (without illustration) in the name of the institute (Meddelelse fra Skandinavisk institut for sammenlignende vandalisme) encompasses four books, all by Jorn
- Naturens Orden (1962)
- Værdi og økonomi (1962)
- Held og Hasard (1963)
- Alfa og Omega (1980 posthumous)
References
- ^ a b Niels Henriksen (2003). "Asger Jorn and the Photographic Essay on Scandinavian Vandalism" (PDF). Inferno. VIII.
- ^ Anneli Fuchs, "Roots and Perspective: Asger Jorn and Tradition in Art," in Asger Jorn (Ishøj: Arken Museum of Modern Art, 2002), 107
Notes
- Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life by Peter Shield, Borgen/Ashgate (1998)
- The Natural Order and Other Texts by Asger Jorn (Translated by Peter Shield), Ashgate (2002)
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