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The art of Edvard Munch is striking for the originality and
universality of its themes, which cross moments in place and time.
Yet he was very much an artist of the nineteenth century, and the
focus of this publication is to show how especially in his prints
and photographs Munch was enabled by technical advances developed
by his contemporaries to create an entirely new visual language.
Munch is probably best known for his desire to express emotions
surrounding love, illness and death. However, the authors in this
volume show that this preoccupation was not only based on
biographical events but reflects wider contemporary debates on
developments in medicine and science, including treatment of mental
illness, as well as a proliferation of technical expertise in the
production of prints. The arguments presented expand on subjects
touched upon in the critically acclaimed British Museum exhibition
Edvard Munch: love and angst (2019). Munch's remarkable prints were
fundamental to establishing his international career, but there
remains much to investigate in connection with the background to
his innovatory techniques, his relationship with contemporary
printmakers and his experiments with photography. The authors in
this volume go some way to address these themes and outline future
avenues of research.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his
reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were
central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental
and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his
paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of
emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's
early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in
1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred
on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the
deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as
well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply
religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a
Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a
visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick
society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in
vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much
criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a
painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a
profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged
experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this
book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most
remarkable works.
From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the
technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and
technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in
Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in
which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to
create lines of astonishing delicacy. This beautifully illustrated
book examines the practice of metalpoint over six centuries, in the
work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Durer, and Rembrandt to Otto
Dix and Jasper Johns. A team of authors--curators, conservators,
scientists--address variations in technique across time and between
different schools, incorporating new scientific analysis, revealing
patterns of use, and providing a rare demonstration of the medium's
range and versatility. They reappraise famous metalpoints of the
Renaissance and shed new light on infrequently studied periods,
such as the seventeenth century and the Victorian silverpoint
revival. A new examination of an exquisite but not thoroughly
understood medium, Drawing in Silver and Gold offers fresh
interpretations of a practice central to the history of drawing and
will serve as the most authoritative reference on metalpoints for
years to come. Exhibition schedule: * National Gallery of Art -
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/leonardo-to-jasper-johns.html,
May 3-July 26, 2015* The British Museum, September 10-December 6,
2015
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Durer (Paperback)
Giulia Bartrum
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Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) is arguably the first truly
international artist, a celebrity both during his own lifetime and
since. A major artist of the northern Renaissance, he was praised
by his contemporaries and described shortly after his death as 'the
prince among German painters'. Durer's achievements as a painter
were matched by his remarkable manipulation of the traditional
techniques of woodcut and engraving, which altered the history of
printmaking and ensured that his works were admired and collected
throughout Europe. The British Museum holds one of the finest
collections of Durer's graphic art in the world, with superlative
prints and drawings from all phases of his career. Beginning with
an introduction to the life of the artist, the book presents a
selection of Durer's best-known works including early figure
studies, landscape watercolours, animal studies drawn from nature
and his imaginative famous prints such as Adam and Eve, Rhinoceros
and Melancholia. As well as demonstrating Durer's astonishing range
of subject matter, the book explores his working method and the
versatile, spontaneous nature of his draughtsmanship. The
development of Durer's ideas from drawings to related woodcuts and
engravings is also investigated, making the book a perfect concise
introduction to this fascinating and much-admired artist.
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