Van Gogh: a power seething

by Bell, Julian

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"'I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and--of the artistic life,' Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. 'And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain. 'His prediction would come true. In his brief and explosively creative life--he committed suicide a few years later at the age of thirty-seven--Van Gogh made us see the world in a new way. His shining landscapes of Provence and somber portraits …

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  • Full title :Van Gogh : a power seething / Julian Bell.

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"'I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and--of the artistic life,' Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. 'And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain. 'His prediction would come true. In his brief and explosively creative life--he committed suicide a few years later at the age of thirty-seven--Van Gogh made us see the world in a new way. His shining landscapes of Provence and somber portraits of workers shattered the relationship between light and dark, and his hallucinatory visions were so bright they nearly blinded the world,"--Amazon.com.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 163 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (chiefly color)).

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1151667130
  • LC Classification:ND653.G7
  • Dewey Decimal:759.9492092

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Saint -- Sinner -- Dog -- Adventurer -- "Japan" -- Broken -- Notes.

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Subjects

Biographies Gogh, Vincent van Netherlands Painters Painters -- Biography -- Netherlands Peintres -- Biographies -- Pays-Bas

Writers

Bell, Julian

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