{"product_id":"edvard-munch-9780300250008","title":"Edvard Munch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...excellent...highly detailed...fascinating...\" - Martin Bailey, \u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'... it is packed with information and event. Few biographies of artists can be described as gripping. This often is.'---Martin Gayford, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... a magisterial portrait of a deeply troubled man. It is both humerous and tragic in its account of Munch's abortive relationships with women, his dependence on drink, and his struggle for success and recognition.'---\u003ci\u003eFrances Spalding, The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] assured and vivid biography.\"—Peter Schjeldahl, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a significant addition to the literature on the Norwegian artist... It is among Prideaux's achievements to give us a thousand...details that pull Munch into sharper focus.\" - Christopher Riopelle, \u003ci\u003eApollo Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sue Prideaux's marvellously detailed study of Munch's extraordinary life takes us deep into the very soul of an astonishing Scandinavian painter who must be measured by no ordinary yardstick.\"---\u003ci\u003eBirmingham Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully illustrated, this is one of the most engaging biographies I have read this year.\"---Mohara Gill, Art Buyer at Foyles Bookshop, \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Already a successful novelist, [Prideaux] combines a scholar's precision with a writer's insight.\"---\u003ci\u003eThe Brighton Argus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eEdvard Munch: Behind the Scream\u003c\/i\u003e, Sue Prideaux, who speaks fluent Norwegian and was able to read Munch's diaries first hand, extends the understanding of this complex man.\"---Sue Hubbard, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Munch] once wrote: 'Just as Leonardo studied the recesses of the human body and dissected cadavers, I try from self-scrutiny to dissect what is universal in the soul.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrideaux has written a life which goes a long way towards upholding his aim and anyone who wants to know how and why he painted as he did should read this book.\"---Tom Rosenthal, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'... [an] absorbing account of the social and intellectual forces, as well as the personal demons, that Munch struggled against - or solicited - in order to create.'---Alan Jenkins,\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fine biography succeeds in explaining why this deeply troubled man, in many ways forgotten, was and is an important and profound artist.\" ---Alastair Lack, \u003ci\u003eOxford Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography in 2005, awarded by the University of Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Such was the nature of Edvard Munch’s life that this book makes a gripping read. Prideaux provides a convincing sense of the psychological experiences of Munch and also the flavor of the times that he occupied.”—John Milner, University of Newcastle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Munch emerges as a real person, rather like you and me.”—Karl Ove Knausgård\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Munch emerges as a real person, rather like you and me.”—Karl Ove Knausgård -- Karl Ove Knausgård","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864346669399,"sku":"9780300250008","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300250008.jpg?v=1722271522","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edvard-munch-9780300250008","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}