Bibliograph

Van Gogh, the life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Type

Label

Van Gogh, the life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsgenealogical tablesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Van Gogh

Responsibility statement

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Sub title

the life

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.This book recreate his extraordinary life - and the inside of his troubled mind - like never before. Drawing for the first time on all of his (and his family's) extensive letters, which offer exquisite glimpses into his thoughts and feelings, this is the definitive portrait of one of the world's cultural giant

Target audience

adult

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