This, the first comprehensive study of its kind, will provide both scholars and collectors of Edvard Munch’s work with an invaluable resource for further research and collecting. All lovers of Munch’s art will delight in this unique publication and find in it a source of inspiration and insight. The catalogue raisonne is based on the accumulated research of both Norwegian and i...(展开全部)

Love, jealousy, loneliness, angst, and death - fundamental experi-ences of human life - are described with penetrating immediacy in the works of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), many of which have become icons of modern art. Munch's images of the crisis of the individual qualify him as a representative of a modern consciousness, the form in which he articulates this i...(展开全部)

Gerd Woll is senior curator at the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.

Ideal for any cultural anthropology course, this brief and inexpensive collection of ethnographic case studies exposes students to fifteen different cultures. "Culture Sketches" introduces students to ethnography without overwhelming them with excessive reading material. Each sketch, or chapter, was selected for its relevance to students and for its ability to reflect the basic...(展开全部)

Grâce à cette exposition consacrée à Munch, découvrez l'oeuvre de cet artiste norvégien, dont les toiles - portraits, autoportraits ou paysages - sont marquées par la maladie, la mort, la souffrance et l'angoisse de la vie. Et seul l'expressionnisme pouvait lui permettre de retranscrire ses émotions, de se confronter à sa propre personnalité. Le peintre introduit souvent dans e...(展开全部)

The Bird King is a collection of various sketches: random jottings, preliminary designs for book, film and theatre projects, sketchbook pages and drawings from life. Each of these represent some aspect of a working process, whereby stories generally evolve from visual research and free-wheeling doodles. They are also 'unfinished' pieces created in a single sitting, not original...(展开全部)

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gi...(展开全部)