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1 online resource (1805 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Family Tree; Maps; Prologue: A Fanatic Heart; Part One The Early Years, 1853-1880; Chapter 1 Dams and Dikes; Chapter 2 An Outpost on the Heath; Chapter 3 A Strange Boy; Chapter 4 God and Money; Chapter 5 The Road to Rijswijk; Chapter 6 The Exile; Chapter 7 Imitation of Christ; Chapter 8 Pilgrim's Progress; Chapter 9 O Jerusalem, O Zundert; Chapter 10 Head to the Wind; Chapter 11 "Dat is Het"; Chapter 12 The Black Country; Chapter 13 The Land of Pictures; Part Two The Dutch Years, 1880-1886; Chapter 14 Hearts of Ice |
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Chapter 15 Aimer EncoreChapter 16 A Draftsman's Fist; Chapter 17 My Little Window; Chapter 18 Orphan Man; Chapter 19 Jacob and Esau; Chapter 20 Castles in the Air; Chapter 21 The Prisoner; Chapter 22 La Joie De Vivre; Chapter 23 The Waternix; Chapter 24 A Grain of Madness; Chapter 25 In One Rush; Chapter 26 Lost Illusions; Part Three The French Years, 1886-1890; Chapter 27 Against the Grain; Chapter 28 The Zemganno Brothers; Chapter 29 Catch and Release; Chapter 30 A Mercenary Frenzy; Chapter 31 Le Paradou; Chapter 32 The Sunflower and the Oleander; Chapter 33 The Poet's Garden |
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Chapter 34 Imaginary SavageChapter 35 La Lutte; Chapter 36 The Stranger; Chapter 37 Two Roads; Chapter 38 The Real South; Chapter 39 Starry Night; Chapter 40 The Isolated One; Chapter 41 "A Degenerate Child"; Chapter 42 The Garden and the Wheat Field; Chapter 43 Illusions Fade; The Sublime Remains; Epilogue Ici Repose; Appendix: A Note on Vincent's Fatal Wounding; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index; Image Credits; Plate Section |
| Summary |
Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved - and most expensive - works of art ever made, from the early The Potato Eaters to his late masterpieces Sunflowers and The Starry Night. He had worked as an art dealer, a missionary and as a teacher in England, and only in his late twenties did he begin a life that would be fundamental in shaping modern art. But when he died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 at the age of thirty-seven he was largely unknown. Written with the unique cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum, Pulitzer-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith recreate his extraordin |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 fast |
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Artists -- Netherlands -- Biography
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ART -- History -- General.
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Artists
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Psychology
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Gregory White
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| ISBN |
9781847653215 |
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1847653219 |
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