"Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials. While drawing liberally from the artist's famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family corres…
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have written another tour de force-an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh. Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and S…
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.
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.
"Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be to…
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters - more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gau…
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters - more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gau…
"When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks ... But [he] was also a prodigious writer of letters - more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin and, above all, to his brother…
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters?more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gaugu…
A critical examination of Vincent van Gogh, this book offers insights into his life, his religious beliefs, his relationships with women and, of course, his paintings.
No one heard the shot. No one ever found the gun. It was Sunday, July 27, 1890. Vincent had recently finished Wheatfield with Crows, thought to be his final painting, one that he described as representing ""vast fields of wheat beneath troubled skies.
This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh?s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.0Vincent van Gogh?s 'Sunflowers' are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces? the first version painted in August 1…
This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh?s Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.0Vincent van Gogh?s 'Sunflowers' are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces ? the first version painted in August …
