Edvard Munch : psyche, symbol and expression

Edvard Munch : psyche, symbol and expression / edited by Jeffery Howe.

Nine essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines, cover themes of love, sexuality, gender and anxiety to comparisons with Ibsen and Kierkegaard. The text explores the meanings of Munch's imagery, his sources in Symbolist art, and his legacy for German Expressionism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944
Corporate Author: McMullen Museum of Art
Other Authors: Howe, Jeffery W. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chestnut Hill, MA : Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, 2001.
Subjects:
Munch, Edvard, > 1863-1944 > Exhibitions.
Munch, Edvard, > 1863-1944 > Themes, motives.
Munch, Edvard, > 1863-1944
Painting, Norwegian > Exhibitions.
Themes, motives.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Munch in context / Jeffery Howe
  • Scandinavian conscience: Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and Munch / Vanessa Rumble
  • In wild embrace: attachment and loss in Edvard Munch / Katherine Nahum
  • Nocturnes: the music of melancholy, and the mysteries of love and death / Jeffery Howe
  • From spiritual naturalism to psychical naturalism: Catholic decadence, Lutheran Munch, and Madone mystérique / Stephen Schloesser
  • Strange boulder in the whirlpool of theater: Edvard Munch, Max Reinhardt, and Ghosts / Scott T. Cummings
  • Notes on the reconstruction of a scenic designer's model for Ibsen's Ghosts / Crystal Tiala
  • Sex and psyche, nature and nurture, the personal and the political: Edvard Munch and German Expressionism / Claude Cernuschi
  • Edvard Munch: a biographical chronology / Daniel Brunet.

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