Van Gogh : the Life / Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naifeh, Steven, 1952-

Contributor:

Smith, Gregory White.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.

Gogh, Vincent van.

Artists--Netherlands--Biography.

Artists.

Psychology.

Netherlands.

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Psychology.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 953 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 2011.

Summary:

Draws on newly available primary sources to present an in-depth, accessible profile that offers revisionist assessments of the influential artist's turbulent life and genius works.

Contents:

A fanatic heart

The early years, 1853-1880. Dams and dikes ; An outpost on the heath ; A strange boy ; God and money ; The road to Rijswijk ; The exile ; Imitation of Christ ; Pilgrim's progress ; O Jerusalem, o Zundert ; Head to the wind "Dat is het" ; The black country ; The land of pictures

The Dutch years, 1880-1886. Hearts of ice ; Aimer encore ; A draftsman's fist ; My little window ; Orphan man ; Jacob and Esau ; Castles in the air ; The prisoner ; La joie de vivre ; The waternix ; A grain of madness ; In one rush ; Lost illusions

The French years, 1886-1890. Against the grain ; The Zemganno brothers ; Catch and release ; A mercenary frenzy ; Le paradou ; The sunflower and the oleander ; The poet's garden ; Imaginary savage ; La lutte ; The stranger ; Two roads ; The real south ; Starry night ; The isolated one ; "A degenerate child" ; The garden and the wheat field ; Illusions fade; the sublime remains

Ici repose

Appendix. A note on Vincent's fatal wounding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [895]- 918) and index.

ISBN:

9780375507489

0375507485

OCLC:

693750996