Edvard Munch : a poem of life, love and death / [edited by Claire Bernardi].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernardi, Claire, editor.

Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944, artist.

Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Munch (Musée d'Orsay). English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944--Exhibitions.

Munch, Edvard.

Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2023.

Language Note:

Translated from 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:

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 20th September 2022-22nd January 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780500026748

0500026742

OCLC:

1378021517