Lecture: Edvard Munch’s Modernity
Saturday, February 2 | 2:30 pmEast Building, Museum Auditorium
Free; ticket from Box Office required
Edvard Munch was an active and astute consumer of popular culture. In his art he drew upon new opportunities in European social and material culture, including the mobility offered by the tourism and travel industries, opportunities for promotion and self-presentation in print media, and new technologies of production and reproduction. This talk by Patricia Berman, the Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College, explores some of these activities, using works in the Munch exhibition as springboards for exploration.
Image:
Edvard Munch, Summer Night. The Voice (Sommernatt. Stemmen), 1894–95, drypoint and etching, plate: 9 13/16 x 12 13/16 in., Publisher: the artist, Berlin; Printer: Otto Felsing, Berlin; Edition: approximately 60–100; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. Louise G. Harper, © 2012 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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