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The incarnation of the myth of a cursed artist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend who became a reference for modern art. An Expressionist during the Post-Impressionist movement, his art was misunderstood during his lifetime. In Holland, he partook in the Dutch realist painting movement by studying peasant characters. Anxious and depressed, Vincent van Gogh produced more than 2000 artworks, yet sold only one in his lifetime. A self-made artist, his work is known for its rough and emotional beauty and is amongst the most popular in the art market today.

Gogh, Vincent van, --- Gogh, Theo van, --- Van Gogh, Theo, --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- Van Gogh, Vincent

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Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, “By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh’s letters to be, specifically, literary?” Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin’s conceptualization of self-awareness as an ongoing dialogue between “self” and “other,” Grant examines the ways in which Van Gogh’s letters raise, from within themselves, questions and issues to which they also respond. Their literary quality, he argues, derives in part from this “double-voiced discourse”—from the power of the letters to thematize, through their own internal dialogues, the very structure of self-fashioning itself. Far from merely reproducing the narrative of the artist’s personal progress, “the letters enable readers to recognize how necessary yet open-ended, constrained yet liberating, confined yet unpredictable, are the means by which people seek to shape a place for themselves in the world.”This volume builds on Grant’s earlier analysis of Van Gogh’s correspondence, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), a study in which he approached the letters from a literary critical standpoint, delving into key patterns of metaphors and concepts. In the present volume, he provides instead a literary theoretical analysis of the letters, one that draws them more fully into the domain of modern literary studies. In his deft and keenly perceptive reading, Grant deconstructs the binaries that surface in both Van Gogh’s writing and painting, discusses the narrative dimensions of the letter-sketches and the recurring themes of fantasy, belief, and self-surrender, and draws attention to Van Gogh’s own understanding of the permeable boundary between words and visual art. Viewing the letters as an integrated body of discourse, “My Own Portrait in Writing” offers a theoretically informed interpretation of Van Gogh’s literary achievement that is, quite literally, without precedent.

Letters in literature. --- Gogh, Vincent van, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- letter-sketches --- Terry Eagleton --- modern literary theory --- modern literary studies --- Mikahil Bakhtin --- Vincent van Gogh --- Van Gogh, Vincent

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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 Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and art historians have sometimes drawn on the letters in their analysis of the paintings. And yet, to date, no one has undertaken a critical assessment of this remarkable body of writing - not as a footnote to the paintings but as a highly sophisticated literary achievement in its own right. Patrick Grant?s long-awaited study provides such an assessment and, as such, redresses a significant omission in the field of van Gogh studies. As Grant demonstrates, quite apart from furnishing a highly revealing self-portrait of their author, the letters are compelling for their imaginative and expressive power, as well as for the perceptive commentary they offer on universal human themes. Through a subtle exploration of van Gogh's contrastive style of thinking and his fascination with the notion of imperfection, Grant illuminates gradual shifts in van Gogh's ideas on religion, ethics, and the meaning of art. He also analyzes the metaphorical significance of a number of key images in the letters, which prove to yield unexpected psychological and conceptual connections, and probes the relationships that surface when the letters are viewed as a cohesive literary product. The result is a wealth of new insights into van Gogh's inner landscape.

Gogh, Vincent van, --- History and criticism. --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- Van Gogh, Vincent --- ART / History / General. --- Art history. --- Idealism. --- Letter-writing. --- Literary criticism. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Religion. --- Rembrandt. --- Theo Van Gogh.

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Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological." Very little is known about Vincent's childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave "the human nest", as he ca

Gogh, Vincent van, -- 1853-1890 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Painters -- Netherlands -- Biography. --- Paintings. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Painting --- Painting. --- Gogh, Vincent van, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Graphic arts --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- Van Gogh, Vincent

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Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces - the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) - have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pictures were examined in unprecedented depth using a broad array of techniques, including state-of-the-art, non-invasive imaging analytical methods, to look closely at and under the paint surface. Not only the making, but also the subsequent history of the works was reconstructed, including later campaigns of restoration. The study's conclusions are set out in this book, along with the fascinating genesis of the paintings and the sunflower's special significance to Van Gogh. More than 30 authors, all specialists in the field of conservation, conservation science and art history, have contributed to the research and publication presenting the outcomes of this unique project.

Sunflowers in art. --- Gogh, Vincent van, --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- Themes, motives. --- ART / Conservation & Preservation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vincent van Gogh, Art meets Science. --- Conservation. Restoration --- restorative processes and techniques --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Gogh, van, Vincent --- Van Gogh, Vincent --- kunst en wetenschap --- Sunflowers in art