Edvard Munch : love and angst

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Edvard Munch : love and angst / edited by Giulia Bartrum. - London : Thames & Hudson : British Museum, 2019. - 223, [1] strona : ilustracje ; 29 cm.

Author

Bartrum Giulia. Redaktor

Form of Work

Książki Albumy i książki artystyczne

Subject

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Edvard Munch: love and angst (11.04-21.07.2019 ; Londyn) Grafika norweska

Genre/Form

Katalogi wystaw Albumy graficzne

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Wypożyczalnia Główna

There are copies available to loan: sygn. C 10946 (1 egz.)

Notes:

General note

Na stronie redakcyjnej: "This publication accompanies the exhibition "Edvard Munch: love and angst" at the British Museum from 11 April to 21 July 2019".

Bibliography, etc. note

Bibliografia na stronie 213. Indeks.

Summary, etc.

Streszczenie: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most remarkable works.