书名：Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth / 爱德华·蒙克：震颤的大地
定价：325.0
ISBN：9780300270501
作者：Ali Smith
版次：1
出版时间：2023-05

内容提要：

题 目：Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth / 爱德华·蒙克：震颤的大地

作 者：Ali Smith

出 版：Yale University Press，2023

装 帧：精装，248页

尺 寸：21.5*28.5 cm

 

 

这是一本发人深省的著作，聚焦于挪威艺术家爱德华·蒙克（Edvard Munch）常被忽视的自然画作，结合蒙克所处的时代与我们的时代，深入探索了他的风景画、海景画以及富含存在主义意味的画作环境。

 

这本图文并茂的画册为挪威艺术家爱德华·蒙克（1863-1944）的自然与风景画作提供了多维度的视角。尽管这一主题在蒙克的作品中占据重要地位，但在相关学术研究中却常被忽视。本书是首部全面探讨蒙克作品中这一主题的著作，涵盖了他的油画、石版画、水彩画和木版画。他描绘的森林、农田、海岸，以及海啸、雪景和其他极端天气场景，以波动的形态赋予了自然以生命力。这些作品也展现了蒙克对边界空间的偏爱，那里是变化发生之地，常常颂扬了人与自然的多种互动形式。本书还探讨了蒙克那些不太传统的风景画，尤其是那些融入了他著名的《呐喊》主题的作品。这些画作以存在主义的方式呈现自然，暗示了艺术家对人类破坏自然的深切忧虑——这一忧虑在今天依然具有现实意义。通过将其著作作为原始资料与画作并置考察，本书还揭示了蒙克如何将科学的自然观与渗透在其作品其他部分的形而上学及精神重生的观念相融合。此外，书中还收录了获奖作家艾莉·史密斯（Ali Smith）受蒙克作品启发而创作的一篇引人入胜的短篇小说。

 

A thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch’s often neglected pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist’s landscapes, seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time and ours

 

This richly illustrated catalogue provides a multifaceted perspective on the pictures of nature and landscape by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944). This important topic has been neglected in scholarship on Munch, despite the fact that it is a major motif in his oeuvre. This volume is the first to explore the theme in its full breadth throughout Munch’s corpus, including his paintings, lithographs, watercolors, and woodcuts. His depictions of forests, farmland, and the seashore, as well as paintings of sea storms, snow, and other extreme weather, present us with undulating forms that animate nature. They likewise provide an example of Munch’s preference for liminal spaces where transformations take place, often celebrating human interaction with nature in its many manifestations. The book also considers Munch’s less conventional landscapes, and particularly those where his famous Scream motif occurs. These environments depict nature in an existential way, suggesting that the artist held a deep concern for nature’s destruction by humans—a concern no less relevant today. A complementary look at his writings as primary sources alongside his images shows how Munch mixed a scientific perspective on nature with metaphysical and spiritual notions of rebirth that permeate other parts of his corpus. The book also includes a engaging short story by award-winning author Ali Smith that was inspired by Munch's work.

 

Distributed for MUNCH

 

Exhibition Schedule:

 

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

(June 10–October 15, 2023)

 

Museum Barberini, Potsdam

(November 18, 2023–April 1, 2024)

 

Munch Museum, Oslo

(April 27–August 24, 2024)