WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 19, the Clark Art Institute hosts a talk by art historian and Professor of Art History at Wellesley College Pat Berman, who explores Edvard Munch's alternative worlds. 

 

Offered at 2 pm in the Clark's auditorium, the talk is presented in conjunction with the Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth exhibition.

 

The event is free.

 

According to a press release:

 

Through his visual art and his writings, Munch offered speculation about alternative worlds, those that animate the tangible world on Earth as well as forces in the larger universe. In an era in which science fiction matured as a genre, a variety of radiant energies were studied by astronomers, and mediumistic communication had entered popular belief, Munch's "trembling earth" was suspended in a web of otherworldliness. Berman takes us on a tour of these imaginary worlds.