Flem­ming Fri­borg Jensen

Ex­amin­ing in­ter­changes between medi­cine and the visu­al arts from the mid-19th cen­tury to the present, it is an at­tempt at chart­ing how med­ic­al sci­ences and no­men­clatures have af­fected aes­thet­ics, art cri­ti­cism, and the artist­ic work pro­cess dur­ing the past 150 years. It is a nar­rat­ive of cul­tur­al norms, con­tem­por­ary art, and the mar­ket.

An ana­lys­is of the re­la­tions between private and pub­lic stake­hold­ers in col­lect­ing and dis­play­ing mod­ern art in Den­mark between c. 1900 and 1935, out­lining the long-term value form­a­tion ef­fects which the in­ter­ac­tion of in­terests gen­er­ated.

A his­tor­ic­al and art his­tor­ic­al study of the mak­ings of the present-day art mar­ket, with spe­cial em­phas­is on ex­changes between col­lect­ors, gal­ler­ies, mu­seums and the me­dia. It is in­ten­ded as a con­tri­bu­tion to es­tab­lish a (hitherto ab­sent) phe­nomen­o­logy of artist­hood.