Edvard Munch : The modern eye
Munch, Edvard, 1863-19442012
Book
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known for his painting "The Scream", painted in 1893, which has become one of the most iconic images in the modern world. Munch was clear about his own mission in exploring the portrayal of extreme human emotion. "Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied anatomy and dissected corpses", he wrote, "so I try to dissect souls". Perhaps because of the subsequent notoriety of "The Scream" and other works from his intensely productive early period, Munch is often presented as a 19th century figure, an inspiration for and precursor of the modern artists who succeeded him. In contrast, this important new survey, accompanying a major, touring exhibition, shows him to have been fully engaged with modernity, particularly by tracing his involvement with its key methods of representation: photography, cinematography and the theatrical mise-en-scene. In addition to a large number of instantly recognisable masterpieces, this lavishly illustrated book reproduces many lesser-known works, as well as a wide selection of Munch's photographs and sketches. Munch's photographs in particular will be a revelation to many; his moody and atmospheric self-portraits and the studio shots of models that are placed alongside finished paintings reveal the way one medium fed into another.
Main title:
Edvard Munch : The modern eye / edited by Angela Lampe and Clement Cheroux ; with contributions by Francois Albera ... [et al.].
Author:
Edition:
English ed.
Imprint:
London : Tate Pub. ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Abrams, 2012.
Collation:
319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 22 September 2011 - 23 January 2012 ; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 9 February - 28 May 2012 ; and Tate Modern, London, 28 June - 14 October 2012."The exhibition is organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris, in cooperation with the Munch-museet, Oslo and in assocation with Tate Modern, London"--T.p. verso.First published in French by Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2011.Includes index.Bibliography: p. 306-307.Translated from the French.
Contents:
Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye / Clement Cheroux -- Medium as Muse -- Munch, Medium Specificity and Modernity / Nicholas Cullinan -- Reworkings -- Dislocated Motifs: Munch's Tendency Towards Repetition / Angela Lampe -- Notes / Edvard Munch -- Autobiography -- `Write your life!': Photography and Autobiography / Clement Cheroux -- Optical Space -- Depth of Field / Clement Cheroux -- On Stage -- Munch and Max Reinhardt's Modern Stage / Angela Lampe -- How Munch Came to Reinhardt and to the Deutsches Theater, 1926 / Arthur Kahane -- Compulsion -- `The woman, he must weep' / Arne Eggum -- Repetition in the Writings of Edvard Munch / Mai Britt Guleng -- Dematerialisation -- Radiation: Metabolising the `new rays' / Pascal Rousseau -- Notes / Edvard Munch -- Amateur Filmmaker -- The Cinema-Art Galleries of Halfdan Nobel Roede / Ingebjø Ydstie -- Munch the Filmmaker, A Recalcitrant Amateur / Francois Albera --
ISBN:
9781849760232 (hbk)9781849760584
Dewey class:
759.81
LC class:
N7073.M8
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
197160
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