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Around the world we find stories about vampires of all kind, and here they are portrayed in all their ghastly glory. The list of the undead creatures featured is long and varied - including among many others the beautiful Japanese Snow woman, the Indian Vetala who haunts graveyards, the Scottish water spirit Glaistig, Filipino vampirechildren, Haitian blood sucking witches, Arabic demon deatheaters, and the Japanese hunger ghost Gakin who eats feces. There are around 40 different creatures in all, each one more terrifying than the last. It´s impossible to resist these unique monsters, all sharing similar traits around the world. Fortunately, we not only learn about the ways in which they emerge but also how to protect ourselves from their powers.<br/><br/> This is <strong>Johan Egerkrans</strong> at his very best: vile vampires in an equally horrid and beautiful take. The darker setting aside, his unique style made famous in <em>Vaesen</em> and <em>Nordic Gods</em> is ever present.

New, anniversary edition! It's been ten years since <em>Vaesen </em>was first published in Sweden and took the audience by storm. This edition includes ten new intriguing - and fearsome - beings.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Johan Egerkrans' collection of creatures from the Scandinavian folklore has become a crossover phenomenon. The dark forests, deep lakes and vast mountain ranges of Scandinavia are home to a multitude of supernatural beings. They are known as the little people, the invisibles, or simply the fair folk. When someone vanishes in the woods, when the milk curdles over night, when strange noises are heard in the loft or when an unexplained ailment strikes, it is said to be the work of such entities.<br/><br/>Some of these creatures appear all over Europe: ghosts, giants, dragons, trolls, werewolves and faeries. Others are endemic to Scandinavia, such as the Neck who rules the rivers, the nightly Mara, the Huldra who guards the forest, tomtar, mylings and many others.<br/><br/>Author and illustrator Johan Egerkrans presents what he regards as the most important - and most fascinating - Scandinavian folkloric beings.

Konstnären Anna Cassel (1860 1937) har fram till nu lämnat ett förhållandevis blygsamt avtryck i konsthistorien. Hennes konst domineras av storslagna landskap och stadsmiljöer med motiv från Jämtland, Västmanland och Stockholm. Anna Cassel var nära vän med Hilma af Klint de samarbetade andligt och konstnärligt och var medlemmar i den kristna spiritualistiska gruppen De Fem, verksamma 1896 till 1907 och grundad av Sigrid Hedman (1855 1922). Parallellt med arbetet i De Fem, från 1906, samt efter att De Fem upplösts, fortsatte deras samarbete i en grupp som till slut utgjordes av tretton kvinnor. De arbetade gemensamt andligt och konkret med vad som är känt som Målningarna till templet.   <br/><br/>Nästan ett sekel efter hennes död, börjar Anna Cassels betydelse för vad som är känt som Hilma af Klints verk träda i dagen.    <br/><br/>I två essäer presenteras Anna Cassel här för en bredare publik och det blir tydligt att samarbetet mellan Cassel och Hilma af Klint var mycket djupare än vi tidigare vetat om. Detta är också första gången Cassels andliga verk Rosens saga tillgängliggjorts i bokform, vilket även var tänkt att ingå i det tempel som Hilma af Klint och hon planerade att uppföra.<br/><br/>"Boken om Anna Cassel bidrar till att spräcka modernismens omhuldade mytbildning om det ensamma geniet." Birgitta Rubin, Dagens Nyheter.<br/><br/><br/><br/>"Boken om Anna Cassel bidrar med en intressant pusselbit." Caroline Söderholm, Sydsvenskan.<br/><br/><br/><br/>"The Saga of the Rose är ett vackert praktverk, rikt illustrerad med bilder av Anna Cassel (1860-1973), många av dem är inte visade tidigare." Yvonne Gröning, Dala-Demokraten.

<strong>Johan Egerkrans </strong>long dreamed of illustrating the Norse mythology, and when he released <em>Norse Gods </em>in Swedish it was an immediate success. Egerkrans re-tells the most exciting and imaginative sagas of the Norse mythology: From the creation myth in which the first giant Ymer is hacked to pieces by Odin and his brothers, to the gods' final destruction in Ragnarök.<br/><br/>This is a gorgeously illustrated book in which gods, giants, dwarves, monsters and heroes are presented in all their glory. A book for those who already know and love these stories, as well as for those who have yet to discover Scandinavian mythology. A definitive work for readers of all ages.<br/><br/>"<em>It is a pleasure to be enchanted by the suggestive visualizations of Angerboda, Hel, Freya, Utgarda-Loki, Mimer and Surt</em>."<br/>Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet

Through an innovative interpretation of their client's core values, 3XN materializes the ideas of openness, simplicity and care in a modern office space for Swedbank's new headquarters in Stockholm. Author Thomas Dickson explores how 3XN's emphasis on transparency, Scandinavian simplicity and a dynamic social environment creates an inviting democratic space while reducing energy consumption. The new headquarters has been awarded a Gold certification from Miljöbyggnad, the Swedish sustainability rating system, supporting Swedbank's core values of social and environmental sustainability.

The fear of living in the end times has a long history. In Decadence and Decay, a group of distinguished international scholars describe how societies over time have handled and interpreted the concept of decline. In times of unrest and transition, declinism the notion that a culture or civilisation is headed towards irreversible decline tends to capture the public imagination.  The essays in this volume address how notions of decadence and decay have been used both as opprobrium and as a form of self-definition and empowerment an instrument to protect individualism against collectivistic oppression. From ancient Rome to the present, ideas and expressions of decadence and decay have played a critical role in how we perceive the world.<i></i>

Hilma af Klint s works have taken the international art world by storm, more than one hundred years after they were created. Around the turn of the 20th century, the new spiritual and social movements of theosophy and later anthroposophy came to inspire the pioneers of modernism and abstract art Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich and Hilma af Klint. What was the zeitgeist that inspired such an artistic explosion?  This anthology is based on a seminar held at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York at the opening of its highly-acclaimed exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future in October 2018.