A book with bestseller potential Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important themes: angst. Everyone knows it and fears it regardless of cultural and social background yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Munch an artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved.

A pioneer of modernism and a comprehensive and opulent document of a universal emotion! Working outside the academy, Munch as able to address the raw, wild, and immediate aspects of human existence.