****Literary giant Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a brilliant and personal assessment of the famous expressionist painter, his Norwegian compatriot, Edvard Munch**** Karl Ove Knausgaard's renowned _sui generis_ autobiographical works, both the _My Struggle_ and _Four Seasons_ series, have been celebra
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
โ Scribed by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Literary giant Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a brilliant and personal assessment of the famous expressionist painter, his Norwegian compatriot, Edvard Munch
Karl Ove Knausgaard's renowned sui generis autobiographical works, both the My Struggle and Four Seasons series, have been celebrated for their passionate and original engagement with art and their insightful critical excursions. But never before in English has Knausgaard published a true work of nonfiction. With this daring sweeping study, in characteristic style, Knausgaard combines piercing artistic insight with freewheeling historical, biographical, and autobiographical digressions, bringing to life Munch's emotionally and psychologically intense work with extraordinary and fitting feeling and urgency. Munch has long been most famous for his iconic work The Scream , but a series of important and comprehensive exhibitions with major galleries in both London and New York have promoted...
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