Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list KUN2005E, Edvard Munch, Fall 2017

(Total 998 pp.)

 

Books (available at Akademika):

M?rstad, Erik: Edvard Munch: An anthology . (Oslo: Unipub, 2006). (200 pp.)

 

Kverneland, Steffen. Munch. (London: SelfMadeHero, 2016), ISBN 9781910593127. (280 pp.)

 

Ingebj?rg, Ydstie. The Scream: Munch Museum. (Oslo: Vigmostad Bj?rke, 2008),

ISBN9788241905322. (105 pp.)

 

Towards the Forest, (exhibition catalogue), (Oslo: Munchmuseet, 2017). (80 pp.)

 

 

Compendium (available at Akademika) (204 pp.):

Bal, Mieke, 2017. “The Cinematic in Painting and Literature,” in Emma & Edvard Looking

Sideways, Loneliness and the Cinematic, The Munch Museum, pp. 24-45, ISBN9788293560012. (21 pp.)

 

Berman, Patricia, 1993.  “Edvard Munch’s Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Smoking and the

Bohemian Persona,” in Art Bulletin, CAA, 75 (4), pp. 627-646. (19 pp.)

 

Berman, Patricia, 2008. “The Many Lives of Edvard Munch,” In Edvard Munch: Collected

Paintings, Vol IV, Thames and Hudson/Cappelen Damm, pp. 1277-1293, ISBN97805000934560. (15 pp.)

 

Burchhart, Dieter, 2007. "Edvard Munch : Signs of Modern Art. The Duality of a Material-

based Modernity," in Edvard Munch: Signs of modern art, Foundation Beyeler . pp. 11-23. (12 pp.)

 

Guleng, Mai Britt, 2013. “The Narratives of the Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch’s Picture

Series,” in Edvard Munch: 1863-1944, Skira/Nasjonalmuseet/Munchmuseet, pp. 129-139, ISBN9788281540750. (11 pp.)

 

Heller, Reinhold, 1973. ""The Frieze of Life" and "Love"," in Edvard Munch: The Scream,

London, pp. 14-57, 111-112. (44 pp.)

 

Toft-Eriksen, Lars, 2015. “A Few Thoughts on a Rubber Hose,” in Munch+Melgaard: The

end of it has already happened, Hatje Cantz, pp. 205-213, ISBN 978-3-7757-3951-1. (8 pp.)

 

Ustvedt, ?ystein, 2009. “The Story of a Masterpiece,” in Edvard Munch Edvard Munch : Det

syke barn : historien om om et mesterverk = The sick child : the story of a masterpiece, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, pp. 105-133, ISBN9788281540361. (28 pp.)

 

Woll, Gerd, 1993. "Competition for the Aula”; “Authors, beggars and Workers as decorative

Sketches”; “The Great Monument and Further Developments in the Aula Competition”; “Now is the Time for Workers”; “The Horror of War and the Hope of a Better Future”; “Life in the City”; “Munch is invited to decorate the Worker’s Canteen at Freia’s", From the Aula to the City Hall. Edvard Munch’s monumental Projects 1909-1930, Lillehammer, pp. 42-88. (46 pp.)

 

Digitally available articles (129 pp.):

Berman, Patricia. “(Re-) Reading Edvard Munch. Trends in the Current Literature,”

Scandinavian Studies, 1994, pp. 45-67. (22 pp). URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/40919620

 

Eggum, Arne. “The Theme of Death,” in Symbols and Images, 143-153. (Note: not the whole article).

Available at: https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/edvard-munch-symbols-images.pdf

 

Olson, M. S., Olson, D. W., and Doescher, R. L. “On the Blood-Red Sky of Munch’s “The Scream,” in Environmental History, Vol. 12, no. 1 (Jan., 2007), pp. 131-135. (4 pp). URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473036

 

Bjerke, ?ivind Storm, “The Scream as Image of a “SCREAM,”” Kunst og Kultur, 03/2007,

Vol. 90, pp. 175-186. (11 pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2007/03/the_scream_as_image_of_a_scream

 

Chang, Alison, “Sexology and Sapphism: Edvard Munch’s Double Nudes,” in Kunst og Kultur,

02/2009, Vol. 92, pp. 92-109. (27pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2009/02/art03

 

Kittelsen, Elin. “Myth of 1910. Reading Edvard Munch’s Alpha and Omega,” in Kunst og

Kultur, 01-02/2017, Vol 100, pp. 20-33. (13pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2017/01-02/myth_of_1910_reading_edvard_munchs_alpha_and_omega

 

Jacobsen, Lasse. “Edvard Munch’s writings after 1944.” Online edition. (Printed ed.: 18 pp)

URL: http://www.emunch.no/ENGART_emunch_jacobsen_1_eng.xhtml#.WQNH6f6wc8Q

 

M?rstad, Erik. “Munch and the Literary,” in Kunst og Kultur, 04/2013, Vol 96, pp. 206-217. (9 pp) URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2013/04/munch_and_the_literary

 

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