Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • More
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • Change Password
  • Alerts
  • Free Issue
  • Other Publications
    • UW Press Journals

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Scandinavian Studies
  • Other Publications
    • UW Press Journals
  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Scandinavian Studies

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Subscribers
    • Institutions
    • Advertisers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
  • More
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • Change Password
  • Alerts
  • Free Issue
  • Follow scandstudy on Twitter
  • Visit scandstudy on Facebook
  • Visit scandstudy on Instagram
  • Visit scandstudy on LinkedIn
Research ArticleArticles

Bridging East And West

Orientalism and the Scandinavian Color Instinct in Modern Painting

MaryClaire Pappas
Scandinavian Studies, January 2025, 97 (1) 25-49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.97.1.25
MaryClaire Pappas
MaryClaire Pappas is a Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her research focuses on modern painting in Norway and Sweden in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: maryclaire.pappas{at}gmail.com
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF
Loading

Article Information

vol. 97 no. 1 25-49
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.97.1.25
Published By 
University of Wisconsin Press
History 
  • Published online January 14, 2025.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2025 by the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Author Information

  1. MaryClaire Pappas
  1. MaryClaire Pappas is a Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her research focuses on modern painting in Norway and Sweden in the 1910s and 1920s. (maryclaire.pappas{at}gmail.com)
View Full Text

Article usage

Article usage: January 2025 to August 2026

AbstractFullPdf
Jan 20257741
Feb 20256741
Mar 20254911
Apr 20251510
May 20252511
Jun 20251800
Jul 20251800
Aug 20252711
Sep 20254110
Oct 20257011
Nov 202513703
Dec 20256604
Jan 20265702
Feb 20265001
Mar 20264000
Apr 20263501
May 20265500
Jun 20266700
Jul 20264302
Aug 20263713
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Scandinavian Studies: 97 (1)
Scandinavian Studies
Vol. 97, Issue 1
1 Jan 2025
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • Index by author
  • Back Matter (PDF)
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Scandinavian Studies.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Bridging East And West
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Scandinavian Studies
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Scandinavian Studies web site.
Citation Tools
Bridging East And West
MaryClaire Pappas
Scandinavian Studies Jan 2025, 97 (1) 25-49; DOI: 10.3368/sca.97.1.25

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
Bridging East And West
MaryClaire Pappas
Scandinavian Studies Jan 2025, 97 (1) 25-49; DOI: 10.3368/sca.97.1.25
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One
Bookmark this article

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • Introduction: Faience-Like Painting
    • To Bridge East and West
    • The Scandinavian “Color Instinct”
    • Islamic Art as Influence and Identity
    • Orientalism Contested
    • Footnotes
    • Works Cited
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Face-Threatening Acts across Binary and Nonbinary Gender Dynamics in Old Norse–Icelandic Literature
  • Swedifying the Other
  • Mediterranean Borderlands in Göran Schildt’s Ikaros’ hav (1957)
Show more Articles

Similar Articles

Keywords

  • modern art
  • Orientalism
  • folk art
  • nationalism
  • Islamic art
  • color theory
  • Scandinavian expressionism
UW Press logo

© 2026 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System