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The Luxembourgian painter and sculptor Michel Majerus (1967-2002) was best known for paintings and installations in large formats for which he combined motifs from the history of art with the symbolism of mass culture. After graduating from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, he moved to Berlin, where, with the exception of a one-year residence in Los Angeles in 2001, he lived and worked until his early death. In its expert -sampling- of images and words from diverse contexts in everyday life, Majerus's art shows the influence of Pop art. His work features characters from popular...

The grand duchy of Luxembourg was created after the Napoleonic Wars, but at the time there was no 'nation' that identified with the emergent state. This book analyses how politicians, scholars and artists have initiated and contributed to nation-building processes in Luxembourg since the nineteenth century, processes that - as this book argues - are still ongoing. The focus rests on three types of representations of nationhood: a shared past, a common homeland and a national language. History was written so as to justify the country's political independence. Territorial borders shifted...