Edvard Munch : love and angst

Edvard Munch Love and angst

Book - 2019

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disappro...ved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most remarkable works.

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Subjects
Munch, Edvard, > 1863-1944 > Criticism and interpretation.
Munch, Edvard, > 1863-1944 > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genres
Exhibition catalogs
Published
London : London : Thames and Hudson 2019.
Language
English
Other Authors
Karl Ove Knausgård, 1968- (interviewee), Edvard Munch, 1863-1944 (-)
Item Description
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Edvard Munch: love and angst at the British Museum from 11 April to 21 July 2019."--Title page verso.
"In collaboration with the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway."--Title page verso.
Physical Description
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780500480465
  • Introduction : Edvard Munch and the United Kingdom / Giulia Bartrum
  • Transfigured continent : Impressions from Munch's Europe / Charles Emmerson
  • The inner soul of an artist : Munch's background and the development of his Frieze of Life / Giulia Bartrum
  • Munch and the world of printmaking / Giulia Bartrum
  • Munch and the theatre in Paris / Stephen Coppel
  • 'Is art influenced by too much business?' : Cultural capital and the market for Munch / Frances Carey
  • Plates, stones and blocks : Munch's printing matrices / Ute Kuhlemann Falck
  • Reflections on Edvard Munch : An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Review by Choice Review

This publication is the catalogue for a summer 2019 exhibition by the same name at the British Museum. In addition to many handsomely reproduced illustrations from the exhibition of Munch's prints (woodcuts, lithographs, etchings), the volume includes an introduction by Bartrum (curator of German prints and drawings at the British) and six essays. The essays include Charles Emmerson's "Impressions from Munch's Europe"; Bartrum on Munch's background, including the development of his monumental Frieze of Life, and on Munch's printmaking; Stephen Coppel on Munch and theater in Paris; Frances Carey on cultural capital and the market for Munch; and Ute Kuhlemann Falck's on Munch's printing matrices ("plates, stones, and blocks"). The volume closes with "Reflections on Edvard Munch: An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard." Bartrum also includes a six-page chronology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --J. Gill Holland, emeritus, Davidson College

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Review by Library Journal Review

Love and all its conflicting emotions are expressed in the works of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863--1944). Accompanying an exhibition focusing on his graphic works, this catalog, edited by British Museum curator Bartrum, traces the development of the artist through loss and trauma, changing European influences, and his preoccupation with negative space. It further demonstrates the enormous body of work he produced during years of despair and depression. Printmaking techniques are discussed in great depth, with excellent illustrations of prints in various stages serving to clarify the process. Essays by a variety of experts in the field delve into Munch's life, the sense of anguish on display in his work, as well as what fueled his enormous creative drive and the meticulous care with which he worked. Although little can compare with personal experience of these works, this scholarly retrospective, including an interview with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaård ("My Struggle" trilogy), provides an excellent example of elegant prose and deep affinity with the artist. VERDICT This work takes readers beyond The Scream and into Munch's creative process and deeply felt emotions. Disturbing at times but always moving and a reminder of the human experience we all share.--Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York

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