This is the English text of a book - now out of print - published in connection with an exhibition of mediaeval wood-sculpture in Umeå in 1991


photo - Lennart Karlsson

MASTERPIECES IN WOOD

- The Art of the Medieval Wood-Carvers in Norrland


The exhibition entitled

BILDHUGGARNAS MÄSTERVERK

(Masterpieces in Wood)

was arranged by

BILDMUSEET
- Umeå University's Museum of Pictures -

and was open from 9th June to 13th October 1991.

CONTENTS

About the Exhibition
Northern Medieval Art Regained
The Distinctiveness of Norrland


Editors:
Göran Carlsson - Marta Järnfeldt-Carlsson - Lennart Karlsson - Anders Åman
Translation:
Tony Huzzard, Monica Loeb, Neville Shrimpton, Pat Shrimpton
Photographers:
Lennart Karlsson, Stellan Wengelin
Graphics:
Göran Carlsson