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Love, jealousy, loneliness, angst, and death - fundamental experi-ences of human life - are described with penetrating immediacy in the works of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), many of which have become icons of modern art. Munch's images of the crisis of the individual qualify him as a representative of a modern consciousness, the form in which he articulates this inner human drama as a pioneer and founding father of expressionism. He re-turned to the themes of such paintings as The Scream, Melancholy,Jealousy, and The Voice over and over again throughout his lifetime,reinterpreting them in myriad variations in paintings, lithographs,and woodcuts. Twenty-three of these subjects were selected as the basis for this unprecedented investigation into the complex inter-relationships and diverse possibilities that underlie Munch's ex-periments with content, motif, and form.
Presenting 70 paintings and 135 works on paper, accompanied by a collection of new essays by recognized Munch scholars, this book explores the origins, development, and interdependence of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre.
Presenting 70 paintings and 135 works on paper, accompanied by a collection of new essays by recognized Munch scholars, this book explores the origins, development, and interdependence of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre.