Edvard Munch: Der Schrei

A hardcover journal with a light-colored, textured canvas spine. The cover features a lithograph print of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, depicting a figure in anguish on a bridge under a swirling, red and orange sky over a dark landscape.

A hardcover journal lying on a white background, angled to show its front cover and spine. The cover features Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream. The cream-colored linen spine has the text EDVARD MUNCH and DER SCHREI printed in black.

The back cover of a book with an off-white canvas spine. The cover features a grainy, blue-tinted, and blurry close-up of a person's face in distress, with their mouth open. A faint, translucent hand is pressed against the right side of their face. A barcode is in the lower-left corner.

A two-page spread in an open art book laid flat against a white background. The pages feature several artworks and German text, all related to Edvard Munch's The Scream. The left page has four colorful, digitally distorted versions of The Scream. The right page displays a photo of a woman screaming, a dark and chaotic painting of a screaming figure, and a black square artwork with a small, central image of The Scream.

An open art book showing a two-page spread. The left page, numbered 86, features three artworks with German captions, including a colorful self-portrait by Maria Lassnig and two pieces by Tracey Emin. The right page, 87, contains a single column of German text. The book is laid on a plain white surface.

An open book displays a two-page spread. The left page shows a 1993 cover of The Spectator magazine featuring a parody of Edvard Munch's The Scream. The right page shows a novelty tin and several bandages, also decorated with The Scream artwork, branded as Scream Bandages.

A table of contents in German, titled INHALT, presented in a minimalist style with black sans-serif text on a white background. The page lists sections and essays with their corresponding page numbers. Major sections include SCHREI-VARIATIONEN, AUFSÄTZE, and SCHREI-MUTATIONEN, suggesting the book is an analysis of Edvard Munchs The Scream.

A page with the title SCHREI-VARIATIONEN, featuring a black-and-white caricature by Olaf Krohn from the magazine Tyrihans, 1895. The four-panel comic, titled Under jul, parodies Edvard Munch's The Scream. One panel explicitly shows a figure in the iconic screaming pose with hands on cheeks, while another depicts a man running on a bridge away from ghostly figures. A caption below notes this is likely the first caricature of The Scream ever published.

A double-page spread from a book. The left page, numbered 114, shows three images of people screaming: a color still from the movie Scream, a black-and-white still from the film Battleship Potemkin, and a color photograph of artist Marina Abramović screaming in Oslo. The right page, 115, contains a large block of German text discussing the motif of the scream in art.

A two-page book spread. On the left page, a yellow Pikachu plush toy stands against a white background, mimicking the pose from Edvard Munch's The Scream with its paws on its cheeks and mouth open. On the right page, a black and white cartoon shows two screaming, skull-like pieces of toast popping out of a toaster labeled Munch Master.

A sketch by Edvard Munch from 1893, located on the reverse side of his famous painting, The Scream. The composition on cardboard shows a figure with a blank, featureless head standing on a bridge under a swirling sky of red, orange, and blue.

A page from an art book or catalog. On the left are two artworks: at the top, Georg Baselitz's colorful expressionist painting, Der Brückechor, from 1983, depicting several figures upside down. Below is Jannis Kounellis's Hommage an Munch II, a 2003 black and white print showing a dense mass of stylized, anxious faces. On the right is a column of German text discussing art history under the heading IKONOGRAFISCHE ADAPTIONEN.

A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains a block of German text with footnotes. The right page displays three stills from the animated TV show The Simpsons, each featuring a parody of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. The parodies show different characters from the show interacting with or depicted as the subject of the painting.

A two-page spread from an art book on pages 94 and 95, showing several artworks inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream. The left page displays four colorful, digitally distorted versions of The Scream and two photographs of figures with oversized heads in a studio. The right page shows a photo of Marina Abramović screaming inside a picture frame, a dark painting of a giant crying head over rubble, and a black-and-white print of The Scream centered on a black square with white marks.

A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains German text identifying the artwork on the right. The right page shows a piece by Edvard Munch from circa 1930: a handwritten text in Norwegian on a yellowed sheet of paper. The words, painted in various watercolor hues, describe the feeling behind his work The Scream.

A two-page spread from an art book in German, showing pages 86 and 87. Page 86 displays three artworks with captions: a colorful self-portrait by Maria Lassnig with a saucepan over her eyes, a film still by Tracey Emin showing a figure on a dock, and an installation by Emin featuring a painting inspired by The Scream. Page 87 contains a single, dense column of German text analyzing art.

An open book showing a drawing by Edvard Munch, Verzweiflung, from 1892. The artwork, made with charcoal and oil on paper, depicts a figure in a hat and coat from behind, looking out from a bridge over a fjord under a dramatic, streaked red sky. To the right of the framed drawing is a column of handwritten text.

Edvard Munch: Der Schrei

Das Motiv in Kunst und Popkultur

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Edited by: Heidi Bale Amundsen

Artist: Edvard Munch

Texts by: Patricia G. Berman, Joanna Iranowska, Øyvind Vågnes

Translated by: Daniela Stilzebach

German

July 2025, 216 Pages, 150 Photos

Hardcover

176mm x 249mm

ISBN: 978-82-8462-014-5

MUNCH forlag

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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The famous painting The Scream has long since conquered pop culture. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois were the first to tackle the subject in their work before the motif became part of popular culture. It served as an illustration for (political) messages on posters and reached the era of comics and commerce a little later. The book sheds light on this phenomenon from the ground up: The genesis of the original painting by Edvard Munch himself, its "variations" in the art context, and finally the countless "mutations" , which propelled the work via tie, T-shirt and coffee cup into the world of memes and emojis. The change of paper also divides these three chapters visually and haptically, altogether a fresh, well-founded and also amusing read on the classic topic of 'The work of art in the age of its reproducibility' (Walter Benjamin, 1980).

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was one of Modernism's most significant artists. His tenacious experimentation within painting, graphic art, drawing, sculpture, photo and film has given him a unique position in Norwegian as well as international art history.