Letter from StockholmJanuary 2010 Swedish “retrograde” by Bill Coyle Reporting on a Scandinavian attempt to retrieve techniques and genres that fell into disuse during the modernist period. You may have read a while back about the misadventures of Anna Odell, a student at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. On January 21, 2009, passersby notified police that they’d seen a woman sitting on the railing of a bridge in the center of Stockholm. When police approached Odell, she refused to speak. Fearing she would jump, they took her into custody. She put up quite a fight, kicking and biting police, and then, when they finally got her to an acute psychiatric ward, kicking and biting the personnel. Eventually the doctors had no choice but to put her in restraints and sedate her. It turned out that the whole thing was a class project, one approved by Odell’s academic advisor. She initially refused to comment on her rationale, but a number of commentators guessed—correctly, as it later turned out—that it had something to do with questioning the ac ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 January 2010, on page 36 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Swedish--ldquo-retrograde-rdquo--4361
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