Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul

by Kynaston McShine

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870704567
• ISBN13: 9780870704567
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.