The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch
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The Vivian and David Campbell Collection
Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor; With contributions by Peter Schjeldahl
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Format: ClothPrice: $90.00
Elizabeth Prelinger discusses Munch as a Symbolist printmaker, providing background on Munch as a graphic artist and exploring how he devised innovative methods to fuse technique and meaning in his Symbolist themes. Michael Parke-Taylor reconstructs the reception of Munch's art in America, tracing a reputation that continues to grow a half century after the artist's death. Peter Schjeldahl poetically evokes Munch's work and accounts for the artist's rock star-like career then and now, and tells how Munch has entered popular consciousness and how he is relevant to a contemporary audience. These essays are accompanied by a detailed catalogue of the fifty-eight prints in the collection, as well as reproductions of the paintings that relate to the prints and many documentary and comparative illustrations.
Published in association with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
"Three Munch scholars explore the symbolist prints of the celebrated Norwegian artist, shedding new light not only on his prints but on the larger Symbolist Movement as a whole."—Art Times
"This superb volume contains (in colour and black-and-white) an almost hypnotic inventory of Munch's haunting Nordic imagination."—The Observer
"From the viewpoint of book production and printing, Yale is to be congratulated. One hundred and seventy-four pages are given over to the catalogue, glossary and chronology, which is extensive, carefully compiled, and lavishly illustrated."—Rigby Graham, Art Review
"An attractive and thoughtful consideration of early prints by the Norwegian painter and graphic artist . . . with accessible text and excellent illustrations, this is highly recommended for general collections as well as for specialists."—Library Journal
"The quality of the reproductions from the Campbell Collection, which are supplemented by images from other collections, is outstanding. The rich scholarship of Prelinger and Parke-Taylor rewards study. Building on the analogy of a rock star, Schjeldahl argues that Munch's archetypal creativity is always contemporary and 'as fresh as rain'. Highly recommended for general and art libraries."—Choice
Publication Date: September 10, 1996
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
90 b/w + 175 color illus.
