Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death

Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death, erschienen bei Thames & Hudson, eröffnet einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Kunst von Edvard Munch. Das umfangreiche Buch präsentiert über 100 verschiedene Werke Munchs, darunter einige seiner bekanntesten Gemälde und Zeichnungen sowie weniger bekannte Grafiken und auch überraschende Schreibversuche des Künstlers. Darüber hinaus enthält das Buch sieben Essays, die Munchs philosophisches und wissenschaftliches Denken näher untersuchen.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death presents about a hundred works—paintings, drawings, prints, and engraved blocks—reflecting the diversity of Munch’s practice. Seven essays explore the artist in his philosophical and scientific milieu and the places that shaped the man and his art, as well as offering a rare glimpse of Munch’s attempts at creative writing. They also examine the historical evolution of his monumental Frieze of Life series and the world-famous Scream. This publication invites readers to revisit the painter’s work in its entirety by following the thread of an ever-inventive pictorial thinking: a vision that is both fundamentally coherent, even obsessive, and at the same time constantly renewed.