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Title:Munch's Ibsen : A Painter's Visions of a Playwright
Series:(New Directions in Scandinavian Studes Series)
Author:Joan Templeton
ISBN:8763507927 : 9788763507929
Illustrations:40 colour & 100 b/w illus
Format:Hardback
Size:175x255mm
Pages:256
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - August 2008
List Price: 20 Pounds Sterling
Availability:Not yet published
Subjects:Modernism: Modernist design & Bauhaus: Plays & playwrights: Individual artists


This is the first comprehensive scholarly and critical account of the relation between the two great Norwegian modernists Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on Norwegian social and cultural history, Munch's extensive unpublished writings, and the interlocking careers of Munch and Ibsen, Joan Templeton demonstrates Ibsen's primordial importance for Munch as a pioneering modernist voice. Munch made more than 400 illustrations of Ibsen's plays, one of the greatest homages a painter ever made to a writer. In addition to locating these illustrations in Munch's life and work as a whole, Templeton also studies them as depictions of Ibsen's plays.