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...reign come!" The desire for coherent symbols ?religious, mystical, anything but political?was as important a part of the early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner world that Freud, in the 1890s, was beginning to approach through clinical means. Even styles that now seem symbolically neutral could be charged with unexpected meanings...
...master images of 20th century art and literature was the City: the ville tentaculaire, condenser of populations and their unease, republic of anxiety, seedbed of desire. From Edvard Munch's top-hatted masks parading the streets of Oslo to Francis Bacon's pinstriped executives howling like caged baboons, the City secreted images of alienation. To the eye of modernist poetry it got more spectral as one came closer to it, as the capitals of Christendom did for T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, almost 60 years...
...DIED. Edvard Kardelj, 69, Yugoslav Communist ideologist and heir apparent to President Tito; of cancer; in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. When his nation was expelled from the Soviet-led Cominform in 1948, Vice President Kardelj devised its new ideological foundation, granting greater freedom to local factories and party cells as well as pioneering a foreign policy of nonalignment. Until taken ill five years ago, the loyal official was widely expected to succeed Tito...
From Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, the unease of some artists could reach such obsessive dimensions that it transcends mere dis play and becomes exemplary. In modern art, the father of anxiety was a Norwegian, Edvard Munch...
...show entitled "Edvard Munch, Symbols and Images," which opened Nov. 11 in the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., is a great event. As Art Historian Robert Rosenblum writes in its catalogue introduction, "Even the most Paris- centered interpretations of the history of postimpressionist art have been obliged to consider the grand and disturbing presence of the strange Norwegian master...