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EDVARD munch: PSYCHE, SYMBOL AND EXPRESSION Edvard Muiuli (1863-1944) was du' lirst Nordic visual .irlisi to earn an inlornational rc'pulalion dmini> llu'('\|)l()sion ol c ic'.iliv ily in die lalo niiu'ti'c'ndi and c'arly Iwc'iidotli (('ulmic's dial luis boon callc'd du' Scandinavian Rc'iiaissaiuc\ Ilis liaunling image' ol The Scream has Im'coiiu' an c'liibk'ni ol modc'in anxirly, and may now bc' tlu' most lr('(|uc'ndy rc'produccel work ol ail in lIu' world.Yi‘1 llu'ic is miich iiioic lo Mime li's arl lliaii ibis single’ slii dcMil noU\ I’roeinclive' lor more' llian six ele'eaele's, Mime li was an insiglidnl portraitist and landscape' paintc'i, as we'll as an c'xae ling c'xploicr ol lumian passions, iiicineliiig nnivc’isal llu'iiu's ol love', dc'atb and spiritual longing. This voluiiK' acTompanic’d an e’xhibilioii lu'lel at die' (diaiIc's S. and Isalx'lla V. McMullen Museum ol Arl al Hoslon (aillc'ge' Irom February 5-May 20, 2001, one ol die mosi eemipre’he'nsive’ c'xlii bitions ol Edvard Mnneb's work e’ver shown in America. The’ exhibition leatnred 83 works liy Edvard Mnneh, inelneling 25 outstanding paintings, many ol which had lU’ver hc’en on pnhiie display belore in America. All works are illnslrale’d here in 43 color and 41 black and white plates. The eight catalog e’ssays also include over 120 comparative illnsiralions. The c’xhihilioii and catalog take an innovative and iiiterdi.sciplinary ap|)roaeh to llic’ study of the style, subject matter, and inter|)retations ol ihe art ol Edvard Munch in modern Enropc'an cniinre. Scholars Irom a vari ety ol disciplines explore the meanings ol Mnneh's image’iy, his sources in Symbolist art and his Ic'gacy (or (iernian Expressionism in the context ol contem[)oraneons de’velopme’nls in psychology, literature,theater, religion,and philosophy. To illuminate many important and Ic’ss lamiliar aspc'c Is ol Munch's achievement, the exhihilion was organi/.e’d around sc’ve’ii piunary the’ine’s Boundaries 0/ ihe Self [lower oj I’oin Flower oj Uwe: Men and Women Mum COVER Dcl.iil ol r.dviiril h, .S(>// 1‘ortrail in Itrtt Nature Mysticism and Relifjion 1903, oil on canvas, 82x (tO cm Dramatic imnqes: Munch and Ibsen Mnmli Mnscnm, Oslo, mm m 391 IKfiires in the Void: Portraits INSIDE FRONT COVER Workers and the Land llclail ol l.clvanl Menuli, A/c'/nnr/io/y iiScg), woocic111, 37.5 X4S-4(in Mnsenni ol l ine' Ails, Boston Willi.im I ramis Warden I nml, 37.33^ INSIDE BACK COVER Dc’lail ol hdvard Mnmli, liiirounlcrin Sjxnc 1899, woodc111, nS.i X 23.1 (m ram rnsi I I EDVARD MUNCH PSYCHE, SYMBOL AND EXPRESSION EDITED BY JEFFERY HOWE Thispublicationisissuedinconjunctionwiththeexhibition EdvardMunch:Psyche,SymbolandExpression attheCharlesS.andIsabellaV. McMullen MuseumofArt,BostonCollege. February5toMay20,2001 TheexhibitionisorganizedbytheMcMullen MuseumofArt. PrincipalCurator; Jeffery Howe Co-Curators: ClaudeCernuschi ScottT.Cummings KatherineNahum VanessaRumble StephenSchloesser,S.J. Thisexhibitionandcatalogareunderwrittenby BostonCollegeand thePatronsofthe McMullen Museumwithadditionalsupportfrom PerArnebergand theAndrewE.andG.NormanWigelandFundoftheAmerican-ScandinavianFoundation. ScandinavianAirlines Systemprovidedassistancewithtransportation. Copyright©2001 bytheCharlesS.and IsabellaV. McMullen MuseumofArt, BostonCollege,Chestnut Hill, MA02467 LibraryofCongresscontrol number00-135498,ISBN 1-892850-02-8 DistributedbytheUniversityofChicagoPress ExhibitionandpublicationcoordinationbyTheaKeith-Lucas CopyeditingbyNaomiRosenberg,Thea Keith-LucasandLisabethBuchelt ProducedbytheOfficeofMarketingandCommunicationsatBostonCollege andthe McMullen MuseumofArt CatalogdesignbyJuliaSedykhDesign PrintedandboundinSingaporebyEurasiaPress AllworksbyEdvard Muncharereproducedwiththepermissionofthe MunchMuseum, TheMuncli-EllingsenGroup,andtheArtistsRightsSociety,NewYork. Photographshavebeenprovidedcourtesyof: Allen MemorialArt Museum,OberlinCollege: fig.98 Alinari-Art Resource:fig.40 BergenKunstmuseum: fig.86 BibliothequeCharcot,LaSalpetriere: figs.46-48,51,52 SarahCampbellBlafferFoundation: nos.17,51,52 C.M.T.AssistancePublique,Paris: fig.50 CopenhagenTeatermuseum: fig.69B DeutschesTheater: figs.70,72-75,87 DrottningsholmTeatermuseum,Sweden; fig.67 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Niirnberg; fig. 104 HarvardUniversityArt Museums: nos. 12,23,32,34,67,71 JefferyHowe: figs. 1,7-11,60 Kunsthalle,Karlsruhe: fig.59 MetropolitanMuseumofArt, NewYork: no.7 MunchMuseum,Oslo: nos. 1,3,4,5,14, 19,33,36,38,39,49,58,59, 61,62,80,81,82; figs.5,12-18,23,26,27,32,36-39,61-63,76-78,79-84,86,117 MuseedTxelles,Brussels; fig.35 MuseumoftheCityofNewYork: fig.69A MuseumofFineArts,Boston; nos. 10,11,13, 16,26,37,42,44,45,57,68; fig.95 TheMuseumofModernArt, NewYork: fig. 117 NationalGalleryofNorway,Oslo: nos.48,50,63,64,66,74; figs.2,3,4,6,20,85 Osterreiches Museum,Vienna; fig.71 Royal MuseumsofArt,Brussels: fig. 24 StaatsgalerieStuttgart:fig.89 Wallraf-Richarts Museum,Cologne; fig. 112 CONTENTS DIRECTOR'S PREFACE 7 NANCY NETZER introduction: munch in context 11 JEFFERY HOWE THE SCANDINAVIAN CONSCIENCE: 20 KIERKEGAARD, IBSEN, AND MUNCH VANESSA RUMBLE “IN WILD EMBRACE”: 31 ATTACHMENT AND LOSS IN EDVARD MUNCH KATHERINE NAHUM nocturnes: THE MUSIC OF MELANCHOLY, AND 48 THE MYSTERIES OF LOVE AND DEATH JEFFERY HOWE FROM SPIRITUAL NATURALISM TO 75 PSYCHICAL naturalism: catholic decadence, LUTHERAN MUNCH, AND MADONE MYSTERIOUC STEPHEN SCHLOESSER, S.J. “A STRANGE BOULDER IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF THEATER”: 111 EDVARD MUNCH, MAX REINHARDT, AND GHOSTS SCOTT T. CUMMINGS NOTES ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF 132 A SCENIC DESIGNER'S MODEL FOR IBSEN'S GHOSTS CRYSTAL TIALA SEX AND PSYCHE, NATURE AND NURTURE, 134 THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL: EDVARD MUNCH AND GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM CLAUDE CERNUSCHI EDVARD munch: A BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY 168 DANIEL BRUNET WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION 175