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Behind the Scream
Yale University Press
November 2005
Featuring: Edvard Munch
391 pages
ISBN: 0300110243
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch’s famous
painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man.
What kind of person could have created this universal image,
one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the
twentieth century? What kind of experiences did he have? In
this book, the first comprehensive biography of Edvard Munch
in English, Sue Prideaux brings the artist fully to life.
Combining a scholar’s precision with a novelist’s insight,
she explores the events of his turbulent life and unerringly
places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and
spiritual contexts.
With unlimited access to tens of thousands of Munch’s
papers, including his letters and diaries, Prideaux offers a
portrait of the artist that is both intimate and moving.
Munch sought to paint what he experienced rather than what
he saw, and as his life often veered out of control, his
experiences were painful. Yet he painted throughout his long
life, creating strange and dramatic works in which hysteria
and violence lie barely concealed beneath the surface. An
extraordinary genius, Munch connects with an audience that
reaches around the world and across more than a century.
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