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gives a voice to creators from the Nordic countries whose approach is based on the visual arts or design, it is also an opportunity to involve researchers and curators in exploring the history and present of the discipline together, as well as inviting unique personalities to retrace their individual paths. The construction of national identities, intellectual and artistic genealogies, such as the deconstruction of some northern myths – from landscape naturalism to ecology and the romantic figure of the hero artist in communion with nature – are some of the recurring themes of the contributions collected in this issue.