"The three essays presented here discuss Mermaid in the contexts of Norwegian imagery, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau; the artist's inventive prints of 1896-97; and his complex, highly personal views on the alteration of his work. This publication ... reproduces all the paintings, drawings, and prints that appear in the exhibition and illuminate Munch's little-known masterpiece"--Cover.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Sept. 22, 2011-Jan. 23, 2012, at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Feb. 9-May 28, 2012, and at Tate Modern, London, June 28-Oct. 14, 2012.

"Edvard Munch painted Mermaid, his first decorative work, in Paris in the summer of 1896, a time of great intellectual and artistic exploration for the artist. He started to make woodcuts and color prints, designed theater sets and programs, and, upon receiving a commission from the Norwegian industrialist and collector Axel Heiberg, turned his attention to decorative painting. Munch fashioned Mermaid to fit within a trapezoidal space under the rafters of a large hall in Heiberg's house in Lysaker, Norway; it was altered to its present rectangular format in 1938 when Heiberg's heirs had it moved. In painting Mermaid, Munch drew on his experiences in Paris, creating a figure with all the psychological complexity of his earlier art but endowed as well with new pictorial qualities. The three essays presented here discuss Mermaid in the contexts of Norwegian imagery, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau; the artist's inventive prints of 1896-97; and his complex, highly personal views on the alteration of his work." "This publication accompanies the first public exhibition of Mermaid, which the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired in 2003. It reproduces all the paintings, drawings, and prints that appear in the exhibition and illuminate Munch's little-known masterpiece."--BOOK JACKET.

This book explores how and why the influential Norwegian artist Edvard Munch exploted late nineteenth-century physiology as a means to express the Symbolist soul. Munch's series of paintings through the 1890s, known collectively as the 'Frieze of Life', looked to the physiologically functioning (and malfunctioning) living organism for both its visual and organized metaphors.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow from 12 June to 5 September 2009 and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin from 18 September to 6 December 2009.

Love, pain, and death; passion, loneliness, and sorrow - the entire oeuvre of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) revolves around the fundamental experiences of human existence. Munch is regarded as one of the trailblazers of the Expressionist currents that informed European painting in the early twentieth century. His prints were not byproducts but a central element of his oeuvre, from the first etchings in 1894 to the lithographs he made just before his death. Among the masterpieces included in this representative volume of images and texts are graphic versions of Munch's world-famous subjects in the form of large-format color lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, hand-colored prints, or experimental prints on colored paper. Munch's graphic works, in which he achieved a persuasive condensation of his major Symbolist allegories, captivate the viewer with their subtle color palettes and their expressive sense of reduction. Exhibition: Kunsthaus Zu rich, Switzerland (4.10.2013-12.1.2014).

The biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century

This volume explores Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and forerunner of expressionist art, Edvard Munch's (1863-1944) unique artistic achievement. It surveys his career in its entire developmental range from 1880 to 1944. This work features a selection of color plates, essays written about Munch by authorities of his work, as well as in-depth documentation of Munch's art and career. This book accompanies an exhibition of Munch's art in America held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2006.

Published on the occasion of the Munch Museum's exhibition "Moonrise, Marlene Dumas & Edvard Munch", 29 September 2018-13 January 2019.

The Edvard Munch Tarot for Relationships is specifically designed to answer relationship questions. Each card has been designed, tailored, and interpreted to explore and illuminate relationship dynamics. This book is designed as a reference for the card deck (sold separately) but could be used as a stand alone reference for tarot relationship questions. Full color book 8X10