Torild Gjesvik

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Academic interests

  • Museology
  • Nature-aesthetics and landscape art
  • The still-life tradition
  • Contemporary art

Higher education and employment history

Master in Art History from the University of Bergen (1997).

I have worked as assistant professor at Telemark College and as lecturer at the University of Bergen; teaching Art History, Arts Communication and Curatorial Studies. I have also practiced as a freelance art historian, critic and curator.

Cooperation

My ongoing PhD is a part of the project Routes, Roads and Landscapes. Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750-2015.

 

 

Tags: Cultural History, Museology

Publications

(2010) "Fire bilder av Krokkleiva", i Årbok for Norsk vegmuseum 2010, p. 15-24.

(2008) Kunst til stede: Om Teorifagbyggets kunstsamling ved Universitetet i Tromsø, Torild Gjesvik, Unni Grøneng, Søren Ubisch (red.)

(2007) Himmelrom

(2007) Finn Aage Andersen (collage assemblage)

(2005) Glemte bilder

(2004) Momentum 2004

(2001) FSNK! Fire målarar

(1997) Stilleben - Samling - Allegori: en studie over Jennifer Lloyds installasjon Vanitas

(1992) Fotografi som kunstnerisk uttrykksform

  • Gjesvik, Torild (2022). Traveling with Knud Knudsen: Roads and Railways in Norwegian Photography. In Fjellestad, Marthe Tolnes & Egan, Shannon (Ed.), Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography. University of Utah Press. ISSN 9781647690625. p. 94–115.
  • Gjesvik, Torild (2021). Weaving the Nation: Sigurd the Crusader and the Norwegian National Tapestries. In Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud & Bohlin, Anna (Ed.), Tracing the Jerusalem Code III. Vol. 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750 - ca. 1920). Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110639476. p. 550–577. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1515/9783110639476.
  • Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Gjesvik, Torild & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2013). The King’s Road: Constructing the National Landscape. In Aukrust, Kjerstin (Eds.), Assigning Cultural Values. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631632987. p. 209–233.
  • Gjesvik, Torild (2012). På sporet av veier i 1800-tallets voyages pittoresques. In Høyum, Nina Frang & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Ed.), Utsikter. Norge sett fra veien 1733-2020. Forlaget Press. ISSN 978-82-7547-553-2.
  • Gjesvik, Torild (2012). In search of roads in 19th-century voyages pittoresques. In Høyum, Nina Frang & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Ed.), Views. Norway Seen from the Road 1733-2020. Forlaget Press. ISSN 978-82-7547-591-4. p. 50–55.
  • Gjesvik, Torild (2011). A Road with a View: C. F. Vogt's Painting of Krokkleiva. In Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Elvebakk, Beate & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (Ed.), Routes, roads and landscapes. Ashgate. ISSN 978-1-4094-0820-8. p. 59–69.

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  • Gjesvik, Torild (2018). Fotograf Knud Knudsen. Veien, reisen, landskapet. Pax Forlag. ISBN 978-82-530-4018-9. 268 p.
  • Gjesvik, Torild; GrØneng, unni & Ubisch, Søren (2008). Kunst til stede Art in Place. Pax Forlag. ISBN 978-82-530-3103-3. 223 p.

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  • Gjesvik, Torild (2022). Carl Abraham Pihl and Andrew J. Russell: Railway Landscapes. In Fjellestad, Marthe Tolnes & Egan, Shannon (Ed.), Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography. University of Utah Press. ISSN 9781647690625. p. 183–187.
  • Gjesvik, Torild (2014). The Road in Art: Three Cases from Nineteenth-Century Norway. Nauka.

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