从这个艺术家的作品中，你能看到什么？是架上绘画艺术的永恒性，可能在某些当代“红透半边天的艺术家“眼中架上艺术可能已经显得”单薄无力”，如今的法国艺术需要我们用清醒的头脑去辨别艺术正真的价值，当前的艺术不存在对与错，也不存在好与坏……但艺术内在的品质、格调以及艺术带给人的精神需求是无法混淆、抹煞的。

Themes is the most comprehensive collection of Odd Nerdrum's works ever published.Its lavish 500 pages are filled with sketches，drawings and studies，along with excellent reproductions of the painter's most important and most recent finished works.A wide selection of close-up details offers the tightest possible view of Nerdrum's brush strokes，which will be of particular interest to students-those who wish to learn his take on the old masters just as they would learn from the work of the old masters themselves.The selection is divided into twentyone chapters，and presented chronologically within each chapter to show the development of specific motifs over the course of his career.This structure and the wide range of work provoke new insights into the central themes in Nerdrum's work，and his treatment of them from first sketches to final canvasses.Nerdrum's latest works-dating from the last five years-are presented here for the first time.They complete an unprecedented overview of his oeuvre，a must for everyone interested in the how and why behind one of today's most controversial painters.The book opens with a literary review by Bjφrn Li，who has followed Nerdrum's work and the debate accompanying it for many years.