Ulf Linde (1929-2013) was a major gure in Swedish cultural life for six decades. Yet until now
few readers outside Scandinavia have been able to enjoy his lively intelligence and highly
original voice. This rst anthology in English spans the full range of his writings texts on
Swedish painters who deserve to be better known abroad studies of Picasso Matisse Picabia
Giacometti and other modern masters and speculative theoretical texts including his last and
most ambitious essay about the art of drawing. He played a key role in the early years of
Moderna Museet where in 1961 he made the rst replica of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass approved
and signed by the artist. He was co-curator of the Duchamp retrospective that opened the Centre
Pompidou in Paris in 1977.
