Van Gogh : The Life

Naifeh, Steven W. 1952- (Author). Smith, Gregory White. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1588360474 (ebook)
ISBN: 9781588360472 (ebook)
ISBN: 0375507485 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780375507489 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: xiii, 953 pages, [16] colored plates : some colored illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
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Edition: 1st U.S. Ed.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2011]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: 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.