Edward Munk. Biography of the artist
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The work of the famous Norwegian expressionist Edward Munk (1863–1944) is fraught with many puzzles, dramatically embodies the “spirit of time”-the atmosphere of Europe of the decades that his long life came. The most famous of his paintings “Scream” for many became the tragic symbol of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a harbinger of world wars and cataclysms of the 20th century. The book of the philologist, writer and art historian ATLEL NASS is a reference modern biography of Munch, revealing the secrets of his work and allowing Munch as a creator and as a person. The author penetratively talks about the joys and hardships that fell to the fraction of the artist, about his difficult family history, about the struggle for recognition, about falling and triumph, about those with whom he was friends and in whom he found support, and, of course, about his love Relations - and about the fear of love, which for him has always been associated with danger, loss and pain. The publication contains numerous color reproductions of Munch paintings, photos from the family archive. The author attracts an extensive factual material - letters and diaries of the artist, evidence of contemporaries and other rarely published documents
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
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Publication Language:Russian
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Series: Person
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Age restrictions:18+
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ISBN:978-5-389-17539-6
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