Frieze of Life: Essays by Arne Eggum - Hardcover

Munch, E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857090160 ISBN 13: 9781857090161

Publisher: Natl Gallery Pubns Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Briefly traces the life and career of the modern Norwegian painter, discusses his series of paintings and prints, the Frieze of Life, and describes the background of each work

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Norwegian

From Publishers Weekly:

Munch's Frieze of Life series encompasses his principal paintings of the 1890s, including The Scream, Death in the Sickroom and The Dance of Life ; in it the Norwegian expressionist grappled with themes of anxiety, death and love . This superbly illustrated catalogue of an exhibit at the National Gallery in London reproduces all the paintings in the series, along with many other key pictures, from the nervous Self Portrait with Cigarette (1895) to The Death of Marat I (1907). In essays, various scholars probe the connection between Munch's existentialist art and his life (1963-1944), which was marked by traumas, mental illness, restless traveling and alcoholism. There is much enlightening material about Munch's bohemian years in Oslo and in Berlin, where he was drawn to anarchism and free love and joined a circle of artists and writers that included August Strindberg. Wood is gallery director at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Natl Gallery Pubns Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1857090160
• ISBN 13: 9781857090161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144