EDWARD MUNCH - THE MODERN LIFE OF A SOUL - USED COLL/ART

• Title: Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul

• Editor / Curator: Kynaston McShine (Chief Curator at Large, MoMA); with essays by Patricia G. Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, and Tina Yarborough.

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; distributed by D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers), New York / Thames & Hudson, London (Printed in Germany by Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei)

• Publication Date / Printing: 2006 (First Edition, published for the exhibition February 17 – May 8, 2006)

• Format: Heavy quarto clothbound hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 256 pages featuring 195 color plates and 41 black-and-white illustrations.

• ISBN: 0-87070-455-9 (Clothbound) / 0-87070-456-7 (Paperbound)

• LCCN: 2005937655

Interesting Facts

• First Major American Retrospective in 30 Years: This landmark MoMA exhibition was the first comprehensive museum retrospective of Edvard Munch (1863–1944) held in the United States since 1978. It brought 87 paintings and 50 works on paper from European collections—most notably the Munch Museum and National Gallery in Oslo—offering Americans a rare look at Munch far beyond just The Scream.

• Cover Masterpiece: The dust jacket showcases Munch's psychological masterpiece The Dance of Life (1899–1900), part of his famous Frieze of Life series. It depicts the three stages of womanhood: innocence/youth (the maiden in white), sensual passion (the woman in red dancing), and grief/solitude (the dark-clad figure on the right).

• Frontispiece Photograph: The opening portrait captures Munch around 1902 in a summer hat and suit, taken during a tumultuous period of intense creative output, emotional vulnerability, and romantic turmoil in Åsgårdstrand.