Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bernardi, Claire
• Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944
• Musée d'Orsay, host institution. https://isni.org/isni/0000000406451902

Description

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm

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).

Uniform Title

Munch (Musée d'Orsay). English.

Subject

• Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944 > Exhibitions
• Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from French.

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.

Call Number

JQE 24-310

ISBN

• 9780500026748
• 0500026742

OCLC

1378021517

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from French.

Added Author

Bernardi, Claire, editor.

Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944, artist.

Musée d'Orsay, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQE 24-310