KUN2005E - Autumn 2015
Syllabus/achievement requirements
Required reading:
1) Compendium 1 (or Compendium 1 + Additional compendium)
- Berman, Patricia: "Body and body politic in Edvard Munch´s Bathing Men", The Body Imaged, Kathleen Adler and Marcia Pointon (eds.), Cambridge, 1993, pp. 71–83.
- Berman, Patricia: "The Urban Sublime and the Making of the Modern Artist", Munch becoming ‘Munch’, Munch-museet, Oslo 2008, pp. 139-156.
- Berman, Patricia: ”Edvard Munch: Women, ’Woman’, and the Genesis of an Artist´s Myth”, Munch and Women. Image and Myth, Jane Sweeney (ed.), San Diego Museum of Art, Alexandria, 1997, pp. 11-40.
- Eggum, Arne: "Artistic Success – Personal suffering 1897 – 1902”; “Doors open on the Continent 1902 – 1907”; “Warnemünde – New Visions 1907 – 1908”; “National Recognition", Edvard Munch. Paintings, Sketches, and Studies, Oslo 1984, pp. 155-283; 290-291.
- Guleng, Mai Britt: “Edvard Munch – The Narrator”, eMunch.no - Text and Image, Munch-museet, Oslo 2011, pp. 219-236.
- Heller, Reinhold: "The Frieze of Life"; "Love", Edvard Munch: The Scream, London 1973, pp. 14-57; 111-112.
- Lampe, Angela: “Munch and Max Reinhardt's Modern Stage”, Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye, Lampe, Angela and Clément Chéroux (eds.), London 2012, pp. 109-118.
- Messel, Nils: “Edvard Munch and His Critics in the 1880s”, Munch Becoming 'Munch', Artistic Strategies 1880-1892, Oslo 2008, pp. 159-171.
- Morehead, Allison: “’Are there bacteria in the rooms of Monte Carlo?’: The Roulette Paintings, 1891–93'”, Munch Becoming 'Munch', Artistic Strategies 1880-1892, Oslo 2008, pp. 121-136.
- Varnedoe, Kirk: ”Christian Krohg and Edvard Munch”, Arts Magazine, no. 8, 1979, u.p.
Compendium 2
- Heller, Reinhold: "Childhood and Youth 1863 – 1880”; “Artistic Beginnings 1880 – 1886”; “Kristiania and Berlin 1892 – 1899", Munch. Life and Work, London 1984, pp. 11-37; 93-173; 227-233.
- Müller-Westermann, Iris: "The self-portrait of the 1880s: The Facial Skin as the Mirror of Personal Experience”; “1909-21: Return to Norway”; “1922-1944: The Hermit at Ekely", Munch by Himself, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005, pp. 15-57; 111-183.
- Woll, Gerd: "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 1993, pp. 42-88.
- Woll, Gerd: "Fifty Years of Printmaking", Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works, New York, 2001, pp. 6-29.
Compendium can beought at Kopiutsalget, Akademika. Please remember your studentcard.
2) Digitalized Curriculum:
- Berman, Patricia: “Edvard Munch's Self-Portrait with Cigarette: Smoking and the Bohemian Persona” Art Bulletin, 75, 1993, pp. 627-646.
3) Book that can be bought at Akademika bookshop:
Mørstad, Erik: Edvard Munch: An anthology , 2006. Oslo, 200 pp.