Edvard Munch

by Munch, Edvard; Schroeder, Klaus Albrecht; Hoerschelmann, Antonia

• ISBN13: 9783775712705
• ISBN10: 3775712704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg

Summary

Loneliness, jealousy, love, and death. There is hardly another artist who explored the basic experiences of human life and his own personal angst so forcefully and in such unsettling images as the Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch. Munch's depictions of the crisis of the individual positioned his work as representative of modern consciousness, and the form he used to express this inner drama set him as a precursor and founder of expressionism. Munch's entire creative period is characterized by a continuous return to his central, melancholic motif of the human condition. In essays by well-known authors in the field, this volume provides a unique, complex, and expansive analysis of the emergence, development, and inner fabric of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre. Different versions and renditions of paintings like The Scream, Melancholy, and Jealousyare presented side by side for a renewed view of these icons of modernism. Additionally, the book examines the close relationship between the artist's graphic and painterly works, acknowledging that Munch's interest in motif was not limited to painting, but that it translated meaningfully into printed media such as lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts, all documented in this book.

Table of Contents

Edvard Munch - Theme and Variation	p. 7
"... a Shedding of Skin ..."	p. 11
Crossover - Munch and Modernism	p. 13
Disappearance - Experiments with Material and Motif	p. 23
Paper in Prints by Edvard Munch	p. 41
Edvard Munch - Style and Theme around the Year 1900	p. 53
"The Age of Carmen" - Gender Relationships in the Art of Edvard Munch, 1890-1920	p. 67
Power, Instinct, Will - Munch's Energetic World Theater in the Context of the Fin de Siecle	p. 83
Edvard Munch and the Early Secessionist Woodcut in Vienna - a Comparative Assessment	p. 91
Munch and Austria - Traces of Encounter	p. 97
Catalog	p. 113
Biography	p. 339
Works in the Exhibition	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 362
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