Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
by Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch
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Author: Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Prelinger, Patricia Berman, Reinhold HellerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-01
ISBN: 0870704559
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Book Review: The Modern's Munch
Summary: 5 Stars
With over 400 plates each, the Eggum and Stang older publications reign at the top of Munch comprehensive monographs, probably not to be repeated.
However, this is about the most comprehensive and digestable form of Munch currently available in print in this country, with 156 plates in the catalog and five great essays, all well thought out interesting additions to Munch literature.
Reinhold Heller's essay is worth the price of the book itself(beyond the plates). Having written extensively in the past on Munch, Edvard munch; Symbols & Images and Edvard Munch : The Frieze of Life Heller furnishes a complete explication of the creation of the "Scream" which has not appeared to my knowledge in so many words, in Eggum or anywhere else. The detail of the essay practically effaces other explantions of this iconic work, which literally swim in muddled post-modern liguistics about who the screamer is, or what the credibility of Munch's editorial explanation of the piece is. Having spent a year in Norway, I assumed that anyone could have Munch's tag line explanation of this simply by experiencing the decay of the summer solstice into the winter. Heller's essay has been the first written piece to enrich my primary experience of it.
Elizabeth Prelinger repeats once again her expertise in her long time pursuit of Munch's graphics Edward Munch: Master Printmaker 1983, The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch: the Vivian and David Campbell Collection [By] Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor. With an essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Feb.-May 1997.]]
Tina Yarborough offers interesting exhibition history from about 1908 to the 1920's. This type of essay, also appearing in Prelinger's "Symbolist Prints", is likely to continue to provide interest to everyone, until all the material is covered.
Patricia Berman offers what amounts to the title essay, and Munch's own line, the modern life of the soul, by explicating spiritual and existential issues that condense around Munch's concept of the locus and significance of his voice as a creative being.
Summary of Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
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.Artists, A-Z Books
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