Reading list KUN2005E, Edvard Munch, Fall 2017
(Total 998 pp.)
Books (available at Akademika):
Mørstad, Erik: Edvard Munch: An anthology . (Oslo: Unipub, 2006). (200 pp.)
Kverneland, Steffen. Munch. (London: SelfMadeHero, 2016), ISBN 9781910593127. (280 pp.)
Ingebjørg, Ydstie. The Scream: Munch Museum. (Oslo: Vigmostad Bjørke, 2008),
ISBN9788241905322. (105 pp.)
Towards the Forest, (exhibition catalogue), (Oslo: Munchmuseet, 2017). (80 pp.)
Compendium (available at Akademika) (204 pp.):
Bal, Mieke, 2017. “The Cinematic in Painting and Literature,” in Emma & Edvard Looking
Sideways, Loneliness and the Cinematic, The Munch Museum, pp. 24-45, ISBN9788293560012. (21 pp.)
Berman, Patricia, 1993. “Edvard Munch’s Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Smoking and the
Bohemian Persona,” in Art Bulletin, CAA, 75 (4), pp. 627-646. (19 pp.)
Berman, Patricia, 2008. “The Many Lives of Edvard Munch,” In Edvard Munch: Collected
Paintings, Vol IV, Thames and Hudson/Cappelen Damm, pp. 1277-1293, ISBN97805000934560. (15 pp.)
Burchhart, Dieter, 2007. "Edvard Munch : Signs of Modern Art. The Duality of a Material-
based Modernity," in Edvard Munch: Signs of modern art, Foundation Beyeler . pp. 11-23. (12 pp.)
Guleng, Mai Britt, 2013. “The Narratives of the Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch’s Picture
Series,” in Edvard Munch: 1863-1944, Skira/Nasjonalmuseet/Munchmuseet, pp. 129-139, ISBN9788281540750. (11 pp.)
Heller, Reinhold, 1973. ""The Frieze of Life" and "Love"," in Edvard Munch: The Scream,
London, pp. 14-57, 111-112. (44 pp.)
Toft-Eriksen, Lars, 2015. “A Few Thoughts on a Rubber Hose,” in Munch+Melgaard: The
end of it has already happened, Hatje Cantz, pp. 205-213, ISBN 978-3-7757-3951-1. (8 pp.)
Ustvedt, Øystein, 2009. “The Story of a Masterpiece,” in Edvard Munch Edvard Munch : Det
syke barn : historien om om et mesterverk = The sick child : the story of a masterpiece, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, pp. 105-133, ISBN9788281540361. (28 pp.)
Woll, Gerd, 1993. "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, pp. 42-88. (46 pp.)
Digitally available articles (129 pp.):
Berman, Patricia. “(Re-) Reading Edvard Munch. Trends in the Current Literature,”
Scandinavian Studies, 1994, pp. 45-67. (22 pp). URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40919620
Eggum, Arne. “The Theme of Death,” in Symbols and Images, 143-153. (Note: not the whole article).
Available at: https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/edvard-munch-symbols-images.pdf
Olson, M. S., Olson, D. W., and Doescher, R. L. “On the Blood-Red Sky of Munch’s “The Scream,” in Environmental History, Vol. 12, no. 1 (Jan., 2007), pp. 131-135. (4 pp). URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473036
Bjerke, Øivind Storm, “The Scream as Image of a “SCREAM,”” Kunst og Kultur, 03/2007,
Vol. 90, pp. 175-186. (11 pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2007/03/the_scream_as_image_of_a_scream
Chang, Alison, “Sexology and Sapphism: Edvard Munch’s Double Nudes,” in Kunst og Kultur,
02/2009, Vol. 92, pp. 92-109. (27pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2009/02/art03
Kittelsen, Elin. “Myth of 1910. Reading Edvard Munch’s Alpha and Omega,” in Kunst og
Kultur, 01-02/2017, Vol 100, pp. 20-33. (13pp). URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2017/01-02/myth_of_1910_reading_edvard_munchs_alpha_and_omega
Jacobsen, Lasse. “Edvard Munch’s writings after 1944.” Online edition. (Printed ed.: 18 pp)
URL: http://www.emunch.no/ENGART_emunch_jacobsen_1_eng.xhtml#.WQNH6f6wc8Q
Mørstad, Erik. “Munch and the Literary,” in Kunst og Kultur, 04/2013, Vol 96, pp. 206-217. (9 pp) URL: https://www.idunn.no/kk/2013/04/munch_and_the_literary