Monumental anthology including peer-reviewed articles on the Dutch Cobra artist Karel Appel
The book is published in connection with the exhibition of the same name at the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt Museum from September 26, 2025 - March 8, 2026
270 pages, richly illustrated, hardback, delivered shrink-wrapped
Table of Contents
- Foreword / Chairman of the Board Finn Poulsen
- Introduction: Karel Appel - Barber Barbar / Lotte Korshøj
- Karel Appel in the Cobra Library / Christian Dotremont
- Far from Candied Art - An Artist Portrait in the Context of Cobra / Lotte Korshøj
- Memories from the years 1948-1949 / Carl-Henning Pedersen
- The Scandal at Stedelijk Museum 1949 / Newspaper clipping from Algemenn handelsblad, 1949
- Come in - here we live! / Memories by Erik Nyholm
- Appel's Animal Pictures - From Brutality to Joy / Karen Kurczynski
- A Barbaric Artist / Newspaper clipping from Politiken, 1965
- The Brutal-Abstracts - Appel in Dialogue with European and American Expressionism / Jens Tang Kristensen
- Signed for Freedom - Karel Appel as a Draftsman / Mireille Cornelis
- Karel Appel - A Biographical Introduction / Helle Forbech Hvergel
- Music is my inspiration / Newspaper clipping from Berlingske Tidende, 1971