Reading Vincent Van Gogh : a thematic guide to the letters / Patrick Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Correspondence--History and criticism.

Gogh, Vincent van.

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athabasca University Press 2016

Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the extraordinary symbiosis evident between his paintings and letters. However it is a formidable task to read and analyze Van Gogh's nearly eight hundred letters due to the sheer bulk and complexity of the collection. Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to the letters and a distillation of Van Gogh's key themes and ideas. This indispensable, synoptic, and interpretive view of the letters as a whole will be equally of interest to scholars and teachers making use of Van Gogh's letters as it will be to those who have long been fascinated by the artist. This is the third book by Patrick Grant on the letters of Vincent van Gogh. It builds on his previous work in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (2014), a practical-critical study, and "My Own Portrait in Writing" (2015), a literary theoretical analysis that draws on the domain of modern literary studies. In the hands of Patrick Grant, the extraordinary literary achievements of Vincent van Gogh are explained and exemplified and claims that the well-known artist was also a great writer are confirmed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Privacy and the Public Record

Biography and Beyond

1 Shaping Commitments

Religion

Morality

Art

2 Enduring Adversity

Suffering

Perseverance

Imperfection

3 What Holds at the Centre

Freedom

Love

Imagination

4 The Power of Words

Literature

Word-Painting

5 Matter and Spirit

The Law of the Father

Nature

The Ineffable

APPENDIX 1: SOME FACTS ABOUT THE LETTERS

APPENDIX 2: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READINGS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 17, 2016).

ISBN:

9781771991896

1771991895

OCLC:

958271577