MUNCH, EDVARD / THE MODERN EYE.

Author: Lampe, Angela et al, ed.
Country: England
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 319
Illustrations: 145 Color Illustrations. 148 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9” x 12”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9781849760584
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index. Cat. of exh. Bio.
Code: 6988

Price: $65.00

This important new survey, accompanying a major touring exhibition, shows Munch to have been fully engaged with modernity, particularly by tracing his involvemnent with its key methods of representation: photography, cinematography,and a renewal of the theatrical mise-en-scene. All of these mediums left their mark upon his painting. In addition to a large number of instantly recognizable masterpieces, this lavishly illustrated book reproduces many lesser-known works, as well as a wide selection of Munch’s photographs and sketches. Munch’s adoption of photography and film 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. With essays by an international selection of authorities, extracts of previously untranslated writings by the artist, a chronology and bibliography, this is one of the most comprehensive and revealing surveys of Munch’s works yet published.