Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
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A penetrating reassessment of Munch’s memorable painting and profound artistic legacy.
This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. The haunting Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, finished one year before his death, represents a culmination of the themes of mortality, isolation, and anxiety that he explored repeatedly, and provides, in these pages, a perfect lens through which to view the artist’s entire oeuvre.
Informative essays consider Munch’s position in the art world, his conception of self as a means of experimentation, and the psychological content of his paintings, while a previously unpublished foreword by the celebrated Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a new perspective on Munch's life and work. Featuring over 40 masterworks from throughout the painter’s career, and an illustrated chronology that traces the progression of his emotional state and its influence on the images he created, this is an intimate, provocative study of an enigmatic artist and his remarkable legacy.
Edited by Gary Garrels, Jon-Ove Steihaug, and Sheena Wagstaff; With a preface by Karl Ove Knausgaard, and essays by Patricia G. Berman, Allison Morehead, Richard Shiff, and Mille Stein
- Hardback, with dust cover
- 152 pages
- 8 × 10 in (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- 105 color illustrations
- Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Product Details
Product Details
- Product Type: Exhibition Catalog, Hardcover
- 152 pages, with 105 illustrations
- Publication Date:
- Shipping Dimensions:
10.0
× 8.0
(25.4 × 20.3 cm) - Shipping Weight: 2.0 lb (32.0 oz; 907 g)
- SKU010003088 | ISBN: 9781588396235
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