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So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Edvard Munch in art, landscape, and life

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Edvard Munch in art, landscape, and life

Karl Ove Knausgaard approaches Edvard Munch through several intersecting frames: art history, biography, memoir, and attention to the landscapes that inspired the Norwegian painter. He also speaks with contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, about Munch’s legacy. Reproductions of selected works accompany the discussion, including paintings described in the source as psychologically and emotionally intense. The book’s scope extends beyond Munch’s art to questions around the life of an artist, connecting a study of one painter with Knausgaard’s own experience as a writer.

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  • For readers interested in Edvard Munch and the history of art.
  • For those who enjoy books that combine art history, biography, and memoir.
  • For readers curious about artists’ lives and the influence of artistic legacies.

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Edvard MunchArt and landscapeArtist’s lifeArtistic legacyArt history and memoir

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Book overview

A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done. Including reproductions of some of Munch's most emotionally and psychologically intense works, chosen by Knausgaard, this utterly original and ardent work of criticism will delight and educate both experts and novices of literature and the visual arts alike.
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