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Edvard Munch: Signs of Modern Art
Ulf Kuster, Philippe Buttner, Bjerke Oivind, Edvard Munch
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz
Though he is more often viewed as a semi-lunatic Symbolist or proto-Expressionist, the great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was in fact a forerunner of much Modern art. His works concentrate on the human dramas of love and death, and on...
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The Story of Edvard Munch
Ketil Bjornstad, Torbjorn Stoverud
Arcadia Books
Arcadia Books
Using Edvard Munch's own letters and diaries, those of his contemporaries and friends, and newspapers and journals of the time, this literary biography presents a picture of the artist as unsparing and true as any of his self-portraits. Damaged in...
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Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream
Sue Prideaux
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the...
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Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, Tina Yarborough, Kynaston McShine, Edvard Munch
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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...
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Edvard Munch (Art Profiles for Kids) (Art Profiles for Kids)
Jim Whiting
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Many people instantly recognize The Scream, a harrowing painting of a person in pain. It appears on countless posters, T-shirts, and coffee mugs. The main character in the Scream horror movies wears a Halloween mask modeled on the painting. Yet not...
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After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch
Elizabeth Prelinger
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Expressing the anxieties of the late-19th century and the uncertainties of the modern world, Edvard Munch (1862-1944) often depicted in his works dangerously seductive "fin de siecle" women, sickly figures, and isolated characters in barren...
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