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Sue Prideaux. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.

Publication: Scandinavian Studies
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sue Prideaux. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Sue Prideanx. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. Pp. 391. $25.00.

While a great deal of scholarship has focused on the paintings and prints of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), relatively few books have made their principle focus Munch's equally absorbing life. Sue Prideaux's biography is a very welcome addition to the small group of works that document Munch's year-to-year existence in revealing detail. Prideaux has made excellent use of Munch's own diaries, letters, and journals archived at the Munch Museum in Oslo. Many of these anecdotes appeared earlier in Ketil Bjornstad's impressionistic 1993 biographical novel Historien om Edvard Munch (translated into English as The Story of Edvard Munch), but the Prideaux book does a more thorough job of footnoting its sources. The author herself is a British-born art historian and novelist who was baptized in Norway and whose godmother was painted by...

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