Watch Art of Scandinavia Episode 1 on YouTube with BBC Select.
It’s a land without light for months on end, with a reputation for gloom and bleak landscapes that inspired 20th-century existentialism. But art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon discovers that while it’s a fitting home for Munch’s The Scream, Scandinavia is also a land of eroticism, fairytales, futuristic thinking and idealism that’s given us bicycle-riding monarchs, Lego and modernist social design.
Watch all episodes of Art of Scandinavia on BBC Select in the US: https://bit.ly/40ukswY and Canada: https://bit.ly/3Sq9KFN
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