Arne Eggum, chief curator of Oslo's Munch Museum, presents fifteen years of research on Munch's life resulting in this magnificently illustrated book with 450 reproductions, 150 of which have never been reproduced before. Tracing Munch's beginnings as an artist (age seven) to his maturation as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement, Eggum's work is a truly revelatory and fascinating exploration of this Norwegian painter.