Title: Excellent Reading to Understand Modern Sweden
Product review: While this book is ostensibly about Swedish art, it really delves, sometimes rather offhandedly, into an investigation of the intellectual underpinnings of modern Sweden. Particularly enlightening is the perspective it throws regarding why Sweden, as an ethnically homogeneous country undergoing a major shift from an agrarian to an urbanized society and with a lively interest, not to say an obsession, with its own cultural roots, never went down the same road that Germany went down after 1870.As such the book is worthwhile for anybody interested in the development of modern Swedish culture, and in fact it is eminently more readable than most other books I've seen on the subject, while still being authoritative.
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