secondary literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Roberto Ohrt
'Biblio-Geographie', in Phantom Avantgarde. Eine Geschichte der Situationistischen Internationale und der modernen Kunst (Hamburg 1990) 312-330.
Roberto Ohrt
'N'ecrivez jamais. Bibliographie zu den Situationisten 1990-1999', in Roberto Ohrt (Hrsg.), Das grosse Spiel. Die Situationisten zwischen Politik und Kunst Hamburg 2000) 171-220.
A current bibliography is published as 'Liste des brochures et ouvrages parus en 2000 [- ]', in Archives & documents situationnistes / [réd. en chef Christophe Bourseiller] N° 1 (novembre 2001) [- ].
Bibliography Asger Jorn [NotBored].

CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION

DISSERTATIONS/THESES
Karen Kurczynski
Beyond Expressionism. Asger Jorn and the European Avant-Garde, 1941-1961 (New York University : New York 2005)
- [abstract] This dissertation examines the artistic and theoretical work of Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Avoiding the pitfalls of a standard monographic study, with its emphasis on organic development and formal unity it considers Jorn's project through three thematic focuses: the avant-garde, myth, and expressionism. Each section explores the cultural background, elaboration, and transformation of these issues over a twenty-year period. This approach contrasts Jorn's work in the groups Helhesten (1941-1944) and COBRA (1948-1951) with developments in Informel and Abstract Expressionism.
- Section I elaborates Jorn's conception of the 'Avant-garde' during and after WW II. While American artists turned away from politics and the collective approach to artmaking, both concerns remained central to Jorn. Jorn's interpretation of the avant-garde also challenged that of Guy Debord, his colleague and cofounder of the Situationist International (1957-1972). While Debord rejected painting, Jorn's artworks created sensory experiences which embody or make possible a political critique. His work challenges the separation of art and politics, as well as avant-garde and kitsch. [source: ProQuest].
Nicola Pezolet
"Le Bauhaus Imaginiste Contre un Bauhaus Imaginaire". La polémique autour de la question du fonctionnalisme entre Asger Jorn et Max Bill (Université Laval : Québec 2008).
- [abstract] This dissertation focuses on the historical, ideological and conceptual origins of Asger Jorn's 'counter-functionalist' discourse on modern art and architecture. It looks critically at the polemical debate between Jorn (as well as the members of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus) and Max Bill, Swiss architect and first director of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. The analysis considers the articles published in 1958 in Jorn's Pour la Forme: Ébauche d'une Méthodologie des Arts in light of the individual trajectories of the artists, the specific context of postwar Europe and the history of the modernist avant-garde.

MONOGRAPHS
Troels Andersen
Asger Jorn. En biografi (Kopenhagen 1994) 2 vols. Translated in German Asger Jorn. Eine Biographie 1914-1973 (Walther König : Köln 2001). Reviewed by Fletcher Christian, 'Eisbären sind vor allem nicht weiß. Eine Biographie des dänischen Künstlers Asger Jorn', in 'Subtropen' #10/02 in Jungle World 07/2002.
Laurent Gervereau
Critique de l'image quotidienne Asger Jorn (Cercle d'art : Paris 2001).
Lars Morell
Poesien breder sig, Jørgen Nash, Drakabygget & situationisterne (Det kongelige Bibliotek : Købnhavn 1981).
Peter Shield
Comparative vandalism. Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life (Hants/Brookfield/Copenhagen 1998). 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 1961-1967.

PERIODICALS
OCRA/ARCHIVIO. Studies on the European Avant-Gardes / a cura da Sandro Ricaldone No. 1 (January 1982) - No. 14 (June 1993).

ARTICLES, ESSAYS & PAPERS
Troels Andersen
'Asger Jorn and the Situationist International' in On the passage of a few people through a brief moment in time. The Situationist International (1957-1972) (MIT Press/ICA : Boston 1989) 62-66.
Troels Andersen
'Een biografie = A Biography', in Asger Jorn 1914-1973 (Amsterdam 1994) 27-54.
Graham Birtwistle
'Op zoek naar structuur in asger Jorn's theoretische werk = Looking for Structure in Asger Jorn's Theory', in Asger Jorn 1914-1973 (Amsterdam 1994) 95-116.
Axel Heil
'Attention Danger: Asger Jorn and the "Peinture Détournée" - of Mermaids, Beards, and the Illusion of Possibility', in Stefan Zweifel, Juri Steiner, e.a. (eds.), In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni - The Situationist International (1957-1972) (Zürich 2006) 236-238.
Per Hovdenakk
'Die Texte von Asger Jorn', in Armin Zweite (Hrsg.), Asger Jorn 1914-1973 (München 1987) 44-46.
Karen Kurczynski
'Expression as vandalism: Asger Jorn's "modifications", in RES. Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics 53/54 (2008) 292-313.
Karen Kurczynski
'Asger Jorn and the Avant-Garde, from Helhesten to the Situationist International', in Rutgers Art Review 21 (Fall 2005).
Tom McDonough
'The many lives of Asger Jorn', in Art in America (July 2002).
Bruno Montpied
'Outsider Art, the Situationist Utopia. A Parallel', in Southern Quarterly 39, nr. 1-2 (2003) 19-46.
- [abstract] The article draws parallels between outsider art and situationism, which are often viewed as contradictory. Both movements emerged at the same time and had deep roots in surrealism but tried to move beyond its boundaries. Both movements looked to everyday life and disdained functionalist architecture. The parallel between the two is best illustrated by the friendship between Danish situationist Asger Jorn and French artist and outsider architecture advocate Jean Dubuffet in the early 1960's. The slowing of 1960's utopianism, the splintering of surrealism, and Jorn's death kept these movements separate [Historical Abstracts].
Lars Morell
'Da Jorn var 'færdig med København', in Literaturmagasinet Standart Nr. 3 (August-October 1995).
Christian Nolle
Books of Warfare. The Collaboration between Guy Debord & Asger Jorn from 1957-1959 (February 2002).
Roberto Ohrt
'Asger Jorn, Guy Debord und die SI', in spex (1995).
Florian Rötzer
'Schräge Vernunftwidrigkeit. Konturen der ästhetische Theorie', in Armin Zweite (Hrsg.), Asger Jorn 1914-1973 (München 1987) 47-56.
Armin Zweite
'Modifikationen und Defigurationen', in Armin Zweite (Hrsg.), Asger Jorn 1914-1973 (München 1987) 44-46.

FILMS

Asger Jorn, film by Per Kirkeby. 1977 (55'). Production Statens Filmcentral, Kraka Film [DFI-Katalog].
Asger Jorn in memoriam, film by Ole Roos. 1995 (26'). Production Saga Video & Kortfilm A/S i koproduktion med Statens Filmcentral, Danmarks Radio [DFI-Katalog].

CATALOGUES

OEUVRE CATALOGUES
Guy Atkins, Troels Andersen
Revised Supplement to the Oeuvre Catalogue of his Paintings from 1930 to 1973 ( : Copenhagen 2006).
Guy Atkins
Asger Jorn, supplement to the oeuvre catalogue of his paintings from 1930 to 1973 / with the help of Troels Andersen (Asger Jorn Foundation in association with Lund Humphries : London 1986).
Guy Atkins
Jorn in Scandinavia, 1930-1953. A study of Asger Jorn's development from 1930 to 1953 and a catalogue of his oil paintings from that period / with the help of Troels Andersen (Lund Humphries : London 1968). Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134) and index.
Guy Atkins
Asger Jorn, the crucial years, 1954-1964. A study of Asger Jorn's artistic development from 1954 to 1964 and a catalogue of his oil paintings from that period / with the help of Troels Andersen (Lund Humphries : London 1977). Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-307) and index.
Guy Atkins
Asger Jorn, the final years, 1965-1973. A study of Asger Jorn's artistic development from 1965 to 1973 and a catalogue of his oil paintings from that period / with the help of Troels Andersen (Lund Humphries : London 1980). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Otto van de Loo und Jürgen Weihrauch (Hrsg.)
Asger Jorn. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik (Galerie Van de Loo : München 1976).
Gerd Presler
Asger Jorn. Werkverzeichnis der Skizzenbücher (Silkeborg Kunstmuseum : Silkeborg 2006).

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2002 Barcelona
Asger Jorn / Col·laboradors Pierre Alechinsky, Troels Andersen, Enrico Baj, Valeriano Bozal, Luciano Caprile, Guy Debord, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Asger Jorn, Pedro G. Romero, Antonio Saura, Peter Shield (Fundació Antoni Tàpies : Barcelona 2002). Catalogue to accompany the exhibition 'Asger Jorn' at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona (February 13-April 2002).
2001 Strasbourg
La planète Jorn. Asger Jorn, 1914-1973 / sous la direction de Laurent Gervereau et Paul-Hervé Parsy (Adam Biro : Paris/Musées de Strasbourg : Strasbourg 2001). Catalogue for the exhibition at the Museum of modern art in Strasbourg (October 19, 2001-January 15, 2002). Reviewed by Tom McDonough for Art in America (July 2002).
1994 Amsterdam
Asger Jorn 1914-1973. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 8.10.1994-27.11.1994 / Troels Andersen, Graham Birtwistle, Johannes Gachnang; vertaling/translation, Isabel Flett, e.a. (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam : Amsterdam 1994). Exhibition catalogue for 'Asger Jorn 1914-1973' at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (October 10-November 27, 1994).
1987 Munich
Armin Zweite (Hrsg.), Asger Jorn 1914-1973. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Skulpturen / [Texts by Armin Zweite, Per Hovdenakk, Florian Rötzer, et al.] (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus : München 1987). Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Asger Jorn 1914-1973. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Skulpturen' at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München (January 21-March 29, 1987).