(25th Anniversary Special Price Edition). For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a potent visual and psychological effect on contemporary viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" 1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known - and certainly one of the most expressive . Munch remarked, "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Thjis volume surveys Munch's life and career with exemplary flare. Illus. 96p,.
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(25th Anniversary Special Price Edition). For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a potent visual and psychological effect on contemporary viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" 1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known - and certainly one of the most expressive . Munch remarked, "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Thjis volume surveys Munch's life and career with exemplary flare. Illus. 96p,.