Edvard Munch : a poem of life, love and death / edited by Claire Bernardi with the collaboration of Estelle Bégué ; translation of essays by Estelle Bégué, Claire Bernardi, Ingrid Junillon and Pierre Wat from French: Trista Selous ; art history adviser on essays translated from French: Emil Leth Meilvang ; translations of essays by Hilde Bøe, Trine Otte Bak Nielsen and Øystein Ustvedt from Norwegian: Rob Young / Munch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernardi, Claire, editor.

Munch-museet (Oslo, Norway), issuing body.

Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Munch (Musée d'Orsay). English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944--Exhibitions.

Munch, Edvard.

Expressionism (Art)--Exhibitions.

Expressionism (Art).

Symbolism (Art movement)--Exhibitions.

Symbolism (Art movement).

Physical Description:

255 pages : many illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oslo : MUNCH, [2022]

Language Note:

Translation of: Edvard Munch. Un poème de vie, d'amour et de mort.

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the world, with a powerful symbolist dimension that goes beyond the masterpieces he created in the 1890s, and which gives his art a great coherence. For Munch, humanity and nature were united in the cycle of life, death and rebirth, which is reflected in the unending recurrence of certain motifs and colour combinations in his work. He wrote: "These paintings, which are, admittedly, relatively difficult to understand, will be easier to grasp if they are integrated into a whole." Published to accompany the major exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death presents about a hundred works -- paintings, drawings, prints and engraved blocks -- reflecting the diversity of Munch's practice. Seven essays explore the artist in his philosophical and scientific milieu and the places that shaped the man and his art, as well as offering a rare glimpse of Munch's attempts at creative writing. They also examine the historical evolution of his monumental Frieze of Life series and the world-famous Scream. This publication invites readers to revisit the painter's work in its entirety by following the thread of an ever-inventive pictorial thinking: a vision that is both fundamentally coherent, even obsessive, and at the same time constantly renewed. Exhibition: Exhibition: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (20.09.2022 - 22.01.2023).

Contents:

Essays. Creating an oeuvre: Munch's story of himself / Claire Bernardi

Munch's haunts and social circles / Øystein Ustvedt

The sinuous line of life / Pierre Wat

A scream through nature / Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

Munch and the Symbolist Theatre / Ingrid Junillon

Munch's Aula and the theatre of The Sun / Patricia G. Berman

The literary Munch / Hilde Bøe

Artworks exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay / introductory texts by Estelle Bégué

From the intimate to the symbolic

The freize of life

Reuse and mutation of the motif

Munch and the grand decorations

Mise-en-scène and introspection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-254).

Originally published: Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, 2022.

"This book is a redesigned and slightly abbreviated English-language edition of Musée d'Orsay's exhibition catalogue edited by Claire Bernardi with the collaboration of Estelle Bégué"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 20, 2022 - January 20, 2023.

Other Format:

French edition

ISBN:

9788284620039

8284620030

OCLC:

1414535627

Publisher Number:

9788284620039