Kaj Stenvall

Kaj Stenvall ranks among the most fascinating Finnish art phenomena of our time. He is best known for his duck paintings, in which the familiar symbol of Donald Duck unravels the eternal issues of being, the world and the self. But the duck figure makes up but one leve of Stenvall's work.

This book is an illuminating consideration of Stenvall's career and production from the 1960s to the present, an interpretation of the manifold meanings of the duck symbol, and an account of the lengthy path that eventually led the artist in the early 90s to the duck figure.