num_pages: 96
description: Fear, desperation, and death: Painting as an act of self-liberation 	 		  	 		For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch’s paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive.				The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism. 	 		  	 		 About the Series:		Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
language: English
title: Edvard Munch: 1863-1944
titlecomplete: Edvard Munch: 1863-1944
genres: Art History, Biography, Reference, Collections, Nonfiction, Art and Photography, Biography Memoir, Art, History
ratings_count: 11510
series: Meesterlijk Modern
publisher: TASCHEN