Blindness as Empathy: The Politics of Touch in Works by Dan Sterup-Hansen

• Authors: Eriksen, Karen Westphal

Abstracts

EN

This article has as its topic the Danish artist Dan Sterup-Hansen (1918–1995) and his paintings and prints on the subject of blind people with canes as well as works related to these. Sterup-Hansen was active as an artist from a young to an old age, but made a significant artistic contribution in the decades following World War II. During this period, he explored a number of themes related to cold war anxiety and the cultural trauma of the World War II. These themes centre on the human body and a phenomenological perception of the world. They are humanitarian in spirit and are related to Sterup-Hansen’s left-wing political views of solidarity, humanism, and advocacy for change and reconstruction after the World War II.

Keywords

EN

Danish modernism; Danish Art; Graphic art; Cold war art; Humanism; the body in art; politics of touch; left-wing art; Dan Sterup-Hansen

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ikonotheka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 205-228

Dates

published

2020-09-13

Contributors

author

Eriksen, Karen Westphal

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/2657-6015ik.29.12