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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Elias Magnus Fries, Lars Vilks, Ivar Wickman, Bertil Ohlin, Esaias Tegner, Claes Fornell, Tage Erlander, Askell Love, Kathryn V. Marinello, Tobias Billstrom, Anders Lindstedt, Jimmie Akesson, Lennart Ljung, Ingeman Arbnor, Gote Turesson, Bjorn Soder, Hasse Alfredson, Erik Leonard Ekman, Manne Siegbahn, Karl Vennberg, Arthur Henry King, Jonas Hafstrom, Gunnar Jarring, Erland Carlsson, Dan Olofsson, Rolf Dahlgren, Per G. Malm, Bo Rothstein, Doris Love, Edvin Kallstenius, Johan Munck, Johannes Rydberg, Torsten Husen, Anders Jahan Retzius, Per Bauhn, Karin Maria Bruzelius, Lennart Geijer, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, Albert Victor Backlund, Per T. Ohlsson, Magnus Mandersson, Peter Stilbs, Gunnar Aspelin, Bjorn Bjerke, Svein Lundevall, Utoni Nujoma, Thorild Wulff, Anders Blixt, Johan Stenflo, Bo Asplund, Sven-Eric Liedman, Anders Johnsson, Olav Hammer, Rune Elmqvist, Hakan Jeppsson, Carl Henrik Fredriksson, Karl Georg Herman Lang, Hans Runemark, Bror Emil Hildebrand, Enoch Thulin, Anders Dahlvig, Goran Petersson, Fredrik Liliegren, Heinz Hopf. Excerpt: Lars Endel Roger Vilks (born 20 June 1946) is a Swedish artist. He is best known for his drawings of Muhammed, prophet of Islam. Vilks was born in Helsingborg, Sweden. His father is from Latvia and his mother is Swedish. He earned a Ph.D. in art history from Lund University in 1987, and worked at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts from 1988 to 1997. From 1997 to 2003, he was a professor in art theory at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. As an art theorist, Vilks is a proponent of the institutional theory of art. Although an academically trained art theorist, Vilks is a self-taught artist. In the 1970s, he started painting, and in 1984, he embarked on creating the idiosyncratic sculptures that have been his hallmark, starting with Nimis. At this time, in the early 1980...
