Karl Ove Knausgaard on Edvard Munch
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Karl Ove Knausgaard talks to Charlotte Higgins about the life and work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, the subject of his latest book, 'So Much Longing in So Little Space'.
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Recorded at St George's church in Bloomsbury, London, on 28 March 2019.
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The book is great. Very thoughtful and penetrating account of one artist by another artist.
So refreshing to have artists’ lives come to the fore. Much needed over the current fad of tech whiz biographies.
December 6, 2019. Happy Birthday, Great Writer! May you have many, many wonderful and fulfilling years ahead. Thanks for being such an inspiration to other writers like myself, and for spilling the beans without reservation. From my point of view (as a lifelong artist), the formalist critics are pretty much blind, and as much as the critic Karl Ove worked with might be a "top" critic, I don't believe he could possibly be a "top" artist, because he would understand how important it is to "cut through" criticism of technique. For me, the entire career and motivation of the serious artist are what is actually "true" about the art. With any fine artist (writer, or any kind of artist) there will always be some good, some better and some not so good at all, because for the serious artist it is always all about experimentation. Sometimes you have to go through the silly and the stupid to get to the profound...as an artist. Parsing through the works for "quality" is beside the point for someone as brilliant and ambitious as Munch. Thank you, Karl Ove, for understanding this. Again, you bring truth to the table.
I see a lot of people saying that the interviewer was poor, but in all fairness, Knausgaard in general is a very difficult person to interview. He is taciturn, and paradoxically uninterested about talking about himself.
Possibly. He's willing enough to talk about his books, writing and art, though.
Knausgård! Is he a narcissist? But the women adore him! Especially, those East Coast educated, NYC erudite 35plus. Susan Sontag respected W.G Sebald. What would the late Miss Sontag say about this always photogénique. KNAUSGÅRD?
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"a thing is a thing - not what is said of that thing."
Very knowledgeable, enthusiastic interviewer, but they MUST be more concise
They love too much the sound of their own voices.
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I wish there was an official scream emoji. What we see are endless memes and takeoffs.
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Terrible interviewer.
She's a terrible interviewer because she doesn't "get" painting at all. I guarantee her reaction to the cabbage field picture was, "What the hell?"
Agree. She took over answering her own questions to Knausgaard as in upstaging him. Knausgaard was very interesting and articulate when she didn't interrupt or take over. I do not know the interviewer's name, but I would not listen to another interview by her.
Terrible because she loves the sound of her own voice so much she has never learned the importance of being concise or of listening to another.