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great reference book
Maurer has provided all van Gogh and Gauguin scholars a wonderful book to aid them in their studies.It provides fabulous photos of works and she does an excellent job of comparing them.She even has a few paintings thathave up until now not been photographed in color.A good study of thesegreat artists and their struggles for original expression and spirituality. Recommended for any scholar. ... Read more

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This exciting new art series combines the most popular artists with expert text and a fresh, unique, format destined to appeal to children and adults alike. Each of the Rizzoli Quadrifolios features sixteen foldout pages that open into huge poster-sized reproductions of the work, allowing readers to feel as though they have leaped into work itself. The series begins with two artists whose work continually compels audiences: Michelangelo and Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh features a variety of the best-known paintings by the Dutch artist, whose work continually breaks records at auctions. A tour of Van Gogh's portraits will travel to major American museums throughout 200 and 2001.
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No other painter better embodies the idea of the tortured artist than Vincent van Gogh. Modern-art historian Meyer Schapiro recognizes this when he states that "what is most important is that van Gogh converted all this aspiration and anguish into his art, which thus became the first example of a truly personal art, art as a deeply lived means of spiritual deliverance or transformation of the self...." What naturally follows from Schapiro is not only a synopsis of van Gogh's artistic career and personal travails, but also an insightful analysis of van Gogh's technique and handling of paint, and how they manipulate the viewer's emotional response to his paintings. With a sympathetic yet penetrating essay by Schapiro, this book is a pleasure to read for van Gogh enthusiasts of any level. The more expert art historian might prefer van Gogh's drawings, of which approximately 20 are reproduced here in black and white. It is for his paintings, however, that one admires van Gogh, and this book's 49 full-page color plates with accompanying comments by Schapiro are its strength. Van Gogh contains works from no less than 30 different worldwide collections to better represent all phases of the artist's development, and includes his most famous and best-loved works. ... Read more

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I never saw the book.
I bought a book from Vika. It is on my order list for delivery, but Vika decided not to send it to me. Can the seller do that?

Wonderful
This is a wonderful collection of Van Gogh -- they fold out.At this price, it's a great purchase, not to mention a first-rate gift idea.

Beautiful images heightened by unusual binding
This unusual book was quite a find.It was made using a binding process I've never seen before.The pages actually unfold in a variety of ways to present images of Van Gogh's best loved paintings in a highly effective manner.Some pages fold out horizontally and present four works side-by-side, others fold out twice forming small posters.The quality of the graphics is excellent--especially the minute details shown in some of the enlarged reproductions.A beautiful volume and an asset to anyone who loves art. ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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van Gogh's art has delighted viewers for hundreds of years. Take a look inside to discover what the artist created and why his amazing life is still celebrated today. Timelines, websites, and further reading help paint a complete portrait of the artist.

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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4731 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Segments of van Gogh.(Vincent van Gogh)(Brief Article)
Author: Sally Mannlein
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 131Issue: 2Page: 36(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Van Gogh spent the last two years of his life in Provence, where he painted his greatest pictures, and this book tells the artist's own story of his most creative period. It reproduces extensive extracts from his correspondence and is illustrated with his paintings, drawings and facsimile letters. Van Gogh's letters are a testimony to his struggle to survive and work. Here, the combination of letters and illustrations, concentrating on the period when he painted his greatest works, aims to provide an insight into his daily life in Arles and St-Remy, his spiritual torment and the process of artistic creation itself. The author is an "Observer" journalist specializing in the arts, and has published four previous books, including "Young Vincent: The Story of Van Gogh's Years in England". ... Read more

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Gasp!
Van Gogh's letters from this, his most creative period, are not possibly a one read collection. Nor, do they necessarily demand an appreciation for his work. Historians of psychiatry and students of creativity and manic depression should not allow this primary source information to be overlooked.
Van Gogh's incestuous relationship with his brother, Theo, was covered dramatically in the film 'Vincent and Theo.' These letters are less pathological but certainly prove the interdependency, which no doubt increased unbearably upon Vincent's death. (Theo was dead a year later and had been chained to the wall in an assylum.)
But this is equally a series of untoward rapture for the natural world and the ordinary people he encountered there. We are introduced, in story and paintings, to some of the most memorable subjects of Van Gogh's accumulated works, Gaughan, Dr. Gauchet, The Chief Orderly in his assylum, The Postal Worker. There are also self-portraits and their impossibly anguished stories.
This is a 5-star work. There is no comparable work for insight into the man and the paintings. It also explains that inescapable discomfort and exaltation felt by studying his work.
Short and concise, it covers more than a biography and includes all the Provence masterpieces. ... Read more

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Booklet with a collection of 30 postcards featuring art works of the Masters. 5 x 7 size. ... Read more

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The paintings of Vincent van Gogh remain as relevant as ever, exerting an ever-profound influence on generations of artists. Gogh Modern attempts to explain this influence through example, presenting an overview of major postwar artists whose work displays a strong relationship with van Gogh or whose work it would be hard to imagine without the existence of van Gogh. Thus in the paintings of Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning and Anselm Kiefer we can clearly recognize the methodologies and expressiveness of van Gogh. Uncompromising artists such as Arnulf Rainer and Bruce Nauman have, like van Gogh, steered art in a new direction. Arranged thematically, Gogh Modern offers plenty of opportunity to compare and contrast van Gogh and his modern-day colleagues, putting notions of tradition versus innovation, influence and inspiration in an entirely new perspective.Includes work by Bruce Nauman, Ellsworth Kelly, Vincent van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer,Andy Warhol, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Zandvliet, Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, amongst others.Essays by Jan-Hein Sassen, Andreas Blühm, Melanie Verhoeven and Nathalie Heinrich.Paperback, 7.75 x 10 in./128 pgs / 100 color 10 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20109 ... Read more