Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death

Edvard Munch. A Poem of Life, Love and Death, publié par Thames & Hudson, ouvre une perspective inédite sur l’art d'Edvard Munch. Cet ouvrage complet rassemble plus de 100 œuvres différentes d’Edvard Munch, dont certains de ses tableaux et dessins les plus connus, ainsi que des gravures moins connues sans oublier les tentatives inattendues de l’artiste en matière d’écriture créative ! Le livre comprend également sept essais qui explorent en profondeur la pensée philosophique et scientifique du peintre.

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.