A naked, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth open in a cursed scream. In the painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863–1944) created the Mona Lisa of our age. The scream of his iconic figure echoes around the world, with its reverberation present in the works of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Martin Kippenberger, Marlene Dumas, and Tracey Emin. This introductory book examines Munch's striking capacity for psychodrama in The Scream and beyond. Richly illustrated, it analyzes the scandalous, dark, and deeply modern visions that shaped the artist's response to relationships and emotions. These captivating images, which the artist himself regarded as a means of "free confession," remain as captivating today as they were at the dawn of modernism.