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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch
Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in August 2004, and has not yet been recovered.) But Munch considered himself a writer as well as a painter. Munch began painting as a teenager and, in his young adulthood, studied and worked in Paris and Berlin, where he evolved a highly personal style in paintings and works on paper. And in diaries that he kept for decades, he also experimented with reminiscence, fiction, prose portraits, philosophical speculations, and surrealism. Known as an artist who captured both the ecstasies and the hellish depths of the human condition, Munch conveys these emotions in his diaries but also reveals other facets of his personality in remarks and stories that are alternately droll, compassionate, romantic, and cerebral. This English translation of Edvard Munch's private diaries, the most extensive edition to appear in any language, captures the eloquent lyricism of the original Norwegian text. The journal entries in this volume span the period from the 1880s, when Munch was in his twenties, until the 1930s, reflecting the changes in his life and his work. The book is illustrated with fifteen of Munch's drawings, many of them rarely seen before. While these diaries have been excerpted before, no translation has captured the real passion and poetry of Munch's voice. This is a translation that lets Munch speak for himself and evokes the primal passion of his diaries. J. Gill Holland's exceptional work adds a whole new level to our understanding of the artist and the depth of his scream.
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Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form
This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive
artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of
experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century
modernist practices.
Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard
Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch, Allison Morehead
considers the conjunction of art making and experimentalism to
illuminate how artists echoed the spirit of an increasingly
explorative scientific culture in their work and processes. She
shows how the concept of \"nature's experiments\"-the belief that the
study of pathologies led to an understanding of scientific truths,
above all about the human mind and body-extended from the
scientific realm into the world of art, underpinned artists'
solutions to the problem of symbolist form, and provided a
ready-made methodology for fin-de-siècle truth seekers. By using
experimental methods to transform symbolist theories into visual
form, these artists broke from naturalist modes and interrogated
concepts such as deformation, automatism, the arabesque, and
madness to create modern works that were radically and usefully
strange.
Focusing on the scientific, psychological, and experimental
tactics of symbolism, Nature's Experiments and the Search for
Symbolist Form demystifies the avant-garde value of
experimentation and reveals new and important insights into a
foundational period for the development of European modernism.
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The Substance of Our Lives
WHILE I WAS in college, the local priest got me to come along with him on his nursing home rounds and play old hymns on the broken piano in the community room. The grand visions we have unfurled for ourselves -careers, vocations, investments, plans-are at best window dressing to these real rendezvous of destiny, which end up forming the actual soil of God's field, the foundation of his building (1 Cor. 3:9). (The two played the violin at Powick, before the young Elgar was hired as leader of the band; an odd familial bond, perhaps, as father and son joined to entertain the mad residents.) The young Elgar worked hard to make his way as a recognized musician and composer. In 1908, Munch entered a residential psychiatric clinic and emerged the next year a calmer, if not happier, soul.
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Portraying Tuberculosis Through Western Art, 1000–2000 CE
In this article, we aim to explore the depiction of TB in Western art across the centuries, shedding light on how it not only reflects a medical journey but also echoes the profound societal shifts accompanying its history. Selection of Artworks From our extensive search, we selected reference artworks that portrayed TB according to previously published iconodiagnosis guidelines (recommendations for the retrospective diagnosis carried out on a work of art representing a human being) (5). First Period, 10th–18th Centuries Throughout history, rulers have sought divine approval to legitimize their reign, a phenomenon integral to the governance of many cultures (6). Before the advent of pasteurization, scrofula was predominantly because of the ingestion of dairy products contaminated with M. bovis that resulted in local infection of the lymph nodes in proximity to the upper digestive tract (10). [...]Period, 19th Century [IMAGE OMITTED:
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Edvard Munch : Between the clock and the bed
This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. The haunting Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, finished one year before his death, represents a culmination of the themes of mortality, isolation, and anxiety that he explored repeatedly, and provides, in these pages, a perfect lens through which to view the artist's entire oeuvre. Informative essays consider Munch's position in the art world, his conception of self as a means of experimentation, and the psychological content of his paintings, while a previously unpublished foreword by the celebrated Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a new perspective on Munch's life and work. Featuring over 40 masterworks from throughout the painter's career, and an illustrated chronology that traces the progression of his emotional state and its influence on the images he created, this is an intimate, provocative study of an enigmatic artist and his remarkable legacy.
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Living People Who Breathe and Feel and Suffer and Love
Digital image from Art Resource, New York, New York, USA. Since its initial appearance in Europe during the 1400s, syphilis has been a scourge across all levels of society, and it remains one of the most common sexually transmitted infections around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that after the rate of primary and secondary syphilis in the United States dipped to historic lows in 2000 and 2001, the rate has increased almost every year since then; the annual increase for 2020–2021 was 29%. Mother-to-child transmission of syphilis [cited 2023 Aug 15]. https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes/stis/prevention/mother-to-child-transmission-of-syphilis Cite This Article DOI: 10.3201/eid2910.ac2910 Original Publication Date: September 20, 2023 Related Links * About Cover Art * Past Covers * Past Issues Table of Contents – Volume 29, Number 10—October 2023 EID Search Options presentation_01 Advanced Article Search – Search articles by author and/or keyword. presentation_01 Articles by Country Search – Search articles by the topic country. presentation_01 Article Type Search – Search articles by article type and issue. September 20, 2023 The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions.
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