Conversation Ellef Prestsæter and Jakob Jakobsen on communist educator Broby-Johansen. Nov 2018

Hospital Prison University Radio

Listen to Ellef Prestsæter and me (Jakob Jakobsen) in conversation about the communist art educator Rudolf Broby-Johansen and his (in Denmark) famous book 'Everyday Art World Art’ published for the first time in 1942 by the Workers' Education Association. The book became a best-seller and for many working class people it was the first book on art they had in their homes. In it Broby-Johansen equates fine art and everyday objects in form and importance. The introduction to the book carries the headline ‘On Seeing' - and here he describes how a painting in a museum has a similar spirit as an everyday object such as a rug beater. He breaks down the hierarchy between fine art and everyday objects found in the home or in the streets. Broby-Johansen lived from 1900 to 1987.