Edvard Munch : The Modern Life of the Soul

edited with an introduction by Kynaston McShine ; essays by Reinhold Heller . [et al.].

ISBN 10: 0870704559 / ISBN 13: 9780870704550

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006

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Hbk, 256 p. : ill, (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm. Fine condition. Some minor scuffing around edges of cover o/w near fine condition. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 17 February - 8 May 2006. Contents : Introduction / Kynaston McShine -- "Could only have been painted by a madman" or could it? / Reinhold Heller -- Edvard Munch's "modern life of the soul" / Patricia G. Berman -- Metal, stone, and wood : matrices of meaning in Munch's graphic work / Elizabeth Prelinger -- Public confrontations and shifting allegiances : Edvard Munch and the art of exhibition / Tina Yarborough -- Edvard Munch : plates -- Catalogue of plates -- Chronology -- Selected exhibitions -- Lenders to the exhibition. [Munch, Edvard 1863-1944 ; Exhibitions] s81 / m14585.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edvard Munch : The Modern Life of the Soul
• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870704559
• ISBN 13: 9780870704550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

In an exploration of modern existential experience unparalleled in the history of art, Edvard Munch, the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker and draftsman, sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and in the process to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love and death. Inspired by personal experience, as well as by the literary and philosophical culture of his time, Munch radically reconceived the given world as the product of his imagination. This book explores Munch's unique artistic achievement in all its richness and diversity, surveying his career in its entire developmental range from 1880 to 1944. The comprehensive volume features a lavish selection of color plates, an introduction by Kynaston McShine, Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, and essays by Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, and Tina Yarborough, as well as in-depth documentation of Munch's art and career. It will accompany the most extensive exhibition of Munch's art in America in three decades.