Vincent van Gogh - Artist of his Time

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Vincent van Gogh
Artist of his Time Griselda Pollock and Fred Orton 68 illustrations, 31 in colour
Various myths surround the life and work of van Gogh. Griselda Pollock and Fred Orton have reconsidered the artist's ouvre and show that his intentions and achievements have not always been properly understood.
Son of a Dutch pastor, van Gogh began a number of careers - as art dealer, teacher and evangelist - before announcing his intention to become an artist in an important letter to his brother Theo. This letter is here studied in some detail, while others are used to complement the paintings, as are quotations from some of the books which van Gogh read, notably works by George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle and Emile Zola.
By their perceptive analysis the authors reveal an ambitious modernist, a highly educated, widely read and articulate painter, determined to be in the avant-garde and confronting the problem of the artist's role in an increasingly urban' industrial society. They... Tovább

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Vincent van Gogh
Artist of his Time Griselda Pollock and Fred Orton 68 illustrations, 31 in colour
Various myths surround the life and work of van Gogh. Griselda Pollock and Fred Orton have reconsidered the artist's ouvre and show that his intentions and achievements have not always been properly understood.
Son of a Dutch pastor, van Gogh began a number of careers - as art dealer, teacher and evangelist - before announcing his intention to become an artist in an important letter to his brother Theo. This letter is here studied in some detail, while others are used to complement the paintings, as are quotations from some of the books which van Gogh read, notably works by George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle and Emile Zola.
By their perceptive analysis the authors reveal an ambitious modernist, a highly educated, widely read and articulate painter, determined to be in the avant-garde and confronting the problem of the artist's role in an increasingly urban' industrial society. They avoid the traditional myths of the isolated and tortured genius and concentrate on the works themselves. These form the basis of a pictorial essay which shows how the same themes occur again and again in the work of this highly sophisticated and determined Northern artist.
Griselda Pollock and Fred Orton are art historians who teach at the University of Leeds.
Jacket illustration : detail from Self-portrait, 1890. Paris, Louvre Vissza