Asger Jorn

Biographic Data

ID255995
NAMEAsger Jorn
GIVEN NAMESAsger
FAMILY NAMEJorn
SIGNATUREJORN A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • The Human Animal

    Asger JornARTICLEOctober2012

    OCTOBER 141, Summer 2012, pp. 53–58. © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 1950–1951 manuscript “Menneskedyret” (The Human Animal) was discovered only after Jorn’s death and published in Danish in 1988.1 Jorn was the first to translate Kafka into Danish in the early 1940s for the art journal Helhesten, which ran from 1941 to 1944 and published nine issues.2 In this text, he counters the later appropriation o…

  • Wonder, Admiration, Enthusiasm

    Asger JornARTICLEOctober2012

    OCTOBER 141, Summer 2012, pp. 59–69. © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this unpublished text from ca. 1955, Jorn further develops the aesthetic theory he first laid out in Held og hasard (Luck and chance).1 In some ways the text is linked to a longer unpublished manuscript titled “Tegn og underlige gerninger” (Signs and Strange Actions) from ca. 1954, which bridges Held og hasard and Pour la forme. There,…

  • Postscript to 12th-Century Stone Sculptures of Scania

    Asger JornARTICLEOctober2012Cited by: 1

    July 01 2012 Postscript to 12th-Century Stone Sculptures of Scania Asger Jorn Asger Jorn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Asger Jorn Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2012 October (2012) (141): 73–79. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00100 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…

  • Dear Friends

    Asger JornARTICLEOctober2012

    July 01 2012 “Dear Friends” Asger Jorn Asger Jorn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Asger Jorn Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2012 October (2012) (141): 70–72. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00099 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article co…

  • Structuralism and Suppression

    Asger JornARTICLEOctober2012

    July 01 2012 Structuralism and Suppression Asger Jorn Asger Jorn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Asger Jorn Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2012 October (2012) (141): 80–85. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00101 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon V…

  • Guy Debord and the Problem of the Accursed

    Asger Jorn, Roxanne LapidusARTICLESubStance1999

    Guy Debord and the Problem of the Accursed Asger Jorn Translated by Roxanne Lapidus "...outlaws impelled by that energy springing from bad passions, alone capable of overthrowing the old world and giving back to the forces of life their creative liberty." —Alain Sergent and Claude Harmel, Histoire de l'Anarchie "It would have been better for mankind had this man never existed." This is what The Gentlemen's Magazine wrote on the occasion of the de…

  • La langue verte et la cuite; etude gastrophonique sur la marmythologie musiculinaire

    Rodney Needham, Asger Jorn et al.ARTICLEMan1969