Bibliograph

Van Gogh, the Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

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Van Gogh, the Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Van Gogh

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

693750996

Responsibility statement

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Sub title

the Life

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

Table Of 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

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