Edvard Munch : behind the Scream / Sue Prideaux.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-370) and index.

Contents -- Foreward -- Problems in Naming and Dating -- Munch's Paints and Materials -- ONE Shy Souls -- TWO Never To Be Parted -- THREE Growing Up In Kristiania -- FOUR The Blood-red Banner -- FIVE Losing Faith -- SIX 'I Have Decided To Become an Artist' -- SEVEN 'No More Brown Sauce' -- EIGHT A Calculated Seduction -- NINE A Few Drinks Before Breakfast -- TEN Soap Art and Soul Art -- ELEVEN And Virtue Is a Sham -- TWELVE The Saint-Cloud Manifesto -- THIRTEEN Bizarro -- FOURTEEN God is Dead, Berlin -- FIFTEEN Memento Mori

SIXTEEN Magical Assassins SEVENTEEN The Dance of Life -- EIGHTEEN Death and the Maiden -- NINETEEN The Shooting -- TWENTY Self-Portrait in Hell -- TWENTY-ONE The Hideous Face of Insanity -- TWENTY-TWO The Sun, The Sun -- TWENTY-THREE Where My Soul Fits In? -- TWENTY-FOUR Degenerate Art -- TWENTY-FIVE Death at the Helm -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- TEXT CREDITS

English.

Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth century? What kind of experiences did he have? In this book, the first comprehensive biography of Edvard Munch in English, Sue Prideaux brings the artist fully to life. Combining a scholar's precision with a novelist's insight, she explores the events of his turbulent life and unerringly places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contexts. With unlimited access to tens of thousands of Munch's papers, including his letters and diaries, Prideaux offers a portrait of the artist that is both intimate and moving. Munch sought to paint what he experienced rather than what he saw, and as his life often veered out of control, his experiences were painful. Yet he painted throughout his long life, creating strange and dramatic works in which hysteria and violence lie barely concealed beneath the surface. An extraordinary genius, Munch connects with an audience that reaches around the world and across more than a century.

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