书名：Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck / 看见寂静：海伦·谢尔夫贝克的绘画
定价：335.0
ISBN：9781588398079
作者：Dita Amory
版次：1
出版时间：2025-11

内容提要：

题目：Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck / 看见寂静：海伦·谢尔夫贝克的绘画

作者：Dita Amory

出版：Metropolitan Museum of Art，2025

装帧：精装，188页

语种：英文

尺寸：22.3*27.9*2.3 cm

A groundbreaking introduction to Scandinavian artist Helene Schjerfbeck through the paintings and drawings that mark her as an exceptional modernist

Reevaluating the role of Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) in the history of modernism, this publication highlights pivotal passages in her sixty-year career―from her training at the Finnish Art Society and remarkable early success to her studies in Paris and St. Ives and eventual return to Finland. There, in relative isolation, she pared down figure paintings and still lifes to near abstraction while introducing greater complexity in her canvases. Long celebrated in Finland and Sweden, Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. This book provides fresh insight into her idiosyncratic processes and discusses the series of haunting self-portraits that she painted in her final years, which stand among the twentieth century’s most extraordinary self-examinations. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck introduces an extraordinary Nordic artist who realized her own unique vision with passionate determination, despite personal adversity and her homeland’s turbulent political history.

这是对斯堪的纳维亚艺术家海伦娜·谢尔夫贝克的开创性介绍，通过那些将她视为杰出现代主义者的绘画和素描作品展开。

本书重新评估了芬兰画家海伦娜·谢尔夫贝克（1862–1946）在现代主义史上的地位，着重展现了她六十年艺术生涯中的关键历程——从在芬兰艺术协会接受培训、早期取得显著成功，到在巴黎和圣艾夫斯学习，最终回到芬兰。在芬兰相对与世隔绝的环境中，她将人物画和静物画简化到近乎抽象的程度，同时在画布上融入了更丰富的复杂性。尽管在芬兰和瑞典，谢尔夫贝克早已备受赞誉，但在世界其他地区却鲜为人知。这本书为读者深入了解她独特的创作过程提供了全新视角，并探讨了她晚年创作的一系列令人难忘的自画像，这些作品堪称20世纪最卓越的自我审视之作。《看见寂静：海伦娜·谢尔夫贝克的绘画》向我们介绍了这位杰出的北欧艺术家，尽管遭遇个人困境以及祖国动荡的政治历史，她仍以满腔热忱和坚定决心实现了自己独特的艺术愿景。