Edvard Munch

love and angst

Giulia Bartrum, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Thames & Hudson
01 June 2019

Art & Architecture; Prints & printmaking; Individual artists, art monographs

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.

Contributions by: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Edited by: Giulia Bartrum
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 230mm,
Weight: 1.450kg
ISBN: 9780500480465
ISBN 10: 050048046X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giulia Bartrum is Curator of German Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian author, known for six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle.

Reviews for Edvard Munch: love and angst

'Fully illustrated … excellent essays on various aspects of Munch’s activity as a print-maker' - Artlyst 'A gripping excavation into a little explored corner of Munch’s oeuvre: there is so much more to him than The Scream. Beautifully intense' - The Lady 'Munch’s best prints crackle with energy and are still exciting and relevant now. This book is warmly recommended' - Printmaking Today 'A fine study which gets behind the popular image to reveal the human story' - Book Murmuration