Kynaston McShine (Editor)
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006. First edition. 0870704559 255 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately , is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped red lettering to spine and blind-stamped title on front cover. Book shows light shelfwear, with very lightly bumped lower inside corner of boards. Binding is firm. Minor creasing can be seen in lower inside corners preliminary and final pages. Dust jacket exhibits mild wear, with minor creasing to lower inside corner of rear panel.
"In an exploration of modern existential experience unparalleled in the history of art, Edvard Munch, the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker and draftsman, sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and in the process to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love and death. Inspired by personal experience, as well as by the literary and philosophical culture of his time, Munch radically reconceived the given world as the product of his imagination. This book explores Munch's unique artistic achievement in all its richness and diversity, surveying his career in its entire developmental range from 1880 to 1944. The comprehensive volume features a lavish selection of color plates, an introduction by Kynaston McShine, Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, and essays by Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, and Tina Yarborough, as well as in-depth documentation of Munch's art and career. It will accompany the most extensive exhibition of Munch's art in America in three decades."