"Edvard Munch wrote his whole life, but most of his texts remained in the drawer. In Only an Instant significant voices from a range of different fields--from visual art to music, critique and astrophysics--enter into dialogue with one of these unpublished texts. Through the contributors' diverse reactions to Munch's text, the book explores the potential of the sketch-like and unfinished. With contributions by Sumaya Jirde Ali, Arif, Hilde Bøe, Øystein Elgarøy, Marit Grøtta, Nils-Øivind Haagensen, Jeanine El Khawand, Mette Henriette, Felipe 'Fela' Orellana, Manuel Pelmuș, Morten A. Strøksnes, Constance Tenvik, Ahmed Umar, and Gunnhild Øyehaug"--Provided by publisher.
"In Munchmuseet's archives is an unpublished handwritten text by Edvard Munch, which he presumably wrote in Nice on his 28th birthday, 12 December 1891. The text appears to be a draft for a prose poem, and describes the impressions of a narrator who observes the surroundings in awe from his vantage point on the beach: the waves that come spilling over the sand, luminous clouds and azure-blue horizon. Munch poem-sketch is the basis for this book [and] gathers fourteen prominent voices from various fields within and beyond the art world who have all responded to, and have been inspired by, Munch's unfinished prose poem from Nice"--Page 2 of cover.
In English; translated from the Norwegian.