Fredrik Lång, born in 1947, is a researcher and writer. His literary production consists of nearly thirty worksin the form of novelsof ideas, essays,aphorisms, and philosophical works. Lång is known as the author of the idea-historical work Bild och tanke, which deals with the parallel development of art and thinking from antiquity up to Marcel Duchamp, romance novels and novels of ideas about, e.g., Leonardo da Vinci and Pythagoras.
Fredrik Lång has received many awards, including the State Literature Prize in 1985 for Sommarenmed Sue, theFinland Prize in 2002, and the biggestFinnish literary prize, the Tollander Prize, in 2021. His latest books include the essay collection, Geosofi—Bilder på en utställning (2020), and the novel Farväl Nappari (2023).
What does art tell us about man’s place in history?In Thought and Image, award-winning author and philosopher Fredrik Lång takes the reader on a two-thousand-year journey spanning the worlds of art and philosophy, from ancient Greece into the modern day. Thought and Image explores the ways in whi...