Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-366).
Synopsis
Exhibitions: Vienna: Albertina Wien-March 17-June 22, 2003
Synopsis
In essays by well-known authors in the field, this volume provides a unique, complex, and expansive analysis of the emergence, development, and inner fabric of theme and variation in Norwegian painter and graphic artist Munch's oeuvre. Over 300 illustrations.
Table of Contents
Edvard Munch - theme and variation /Klaus Albrecht Schrèoder --" ... a shedding of skin ..." ;Crossover - Munch and modernism /Antonia Hoerschelmann --Disappearance - experiments with material and motif /Dieter Buchhart --Paper in prints by Edvard Munch /Gerd Woll --Edvard Munch - style and theme around the year 1900 /Frank H²if²dt --"Age of Carmen" - gender relationships in the art of Edvard Munch, 1890-1920 /Iris Mèuller-Westermann --Power, instinct, will - Munch's energetic world theater in the context of the Fin de Siáecle /Christoph Asendorf --Edvard Munch and the early secessionist woodcut in Vienna - a comparative asessment /Marian Bisanz-Prakken --Munch and Austra - traces of encounter /Antonia Hoerschelmann --CATALOG.