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The best of van Gogh's eternally popular paintings, gathered together in one magnificently produced volume.
Nearly 120 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh and his work continue to exert a powerful
fascination. This book offers the reader a selection of the artist's most unforgettable canvases as well
as some lesser-known examples, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It explores
the works in the context of van Gogh's short but brilliant career, in which frequent spells of isolation did not
preclude lively engagement with his artistic peers and the ideas of his time.
Van Gogh's brush was guided by a remarkable, restless, and wide-ranging intelligence that found another
outlet in the continuous stream of letters written to family and friends. The artist's correspondence—one
of the most important archival resources of nineteenth-century art—provides the narrative thread around
which this study develops. Belinda Thomson considers van Gogh as a cosmopolitan figure who combined in
his art experiences and traditions absorbed in his native Netherlands and in Victorian England, and then
succeeded in assimilating and making his mark on the practice of painting in France at one of its richest
periods. 170 color illustrations.
About the Author :
Belinda Thomson has published extensively on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Her books include two titles in the World of Art series: Gauguin and Impressionism: Origins,
Practice, Reception.
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This enormous, extraordinary collection brings together 1000 high-quality color illustrations, showcasing the evolution of creative arts over diverse cultures from prehistoric to modern times. Arranged chronologically, each piece is given its own page and a condensed summary of its provenance, key features and cultural context. Book-ended by a ritual ''lion man'' figurine from 28,000 B.C. found in a cave in southern Germany, and an as-yet-unfinished environmental sculpture by American artist James Turrell (materials: ''Extinct volcano and light''), it also contains two time-lines, one covering major movements in the 13 cultures represented (Mesopotamia, Iran and the Arabian Peninsula; Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean; Egypt and Africa; Europe; North America; Central America and the Caribbean; South America; Oceania; Japan; Korea; China; Southeast Asia; and Central Asia) and another comprised of a 28 page horizontal index that sets each piece against major world events. A 10-page glossary and comprehensive index completes this invaluable resource. Ably capturing the ancient and insuppressible creative drive of the human spirit and the sweep of history, this is a book art-lovers and cultural anthropologists scholars and laypeople alike are guaranteed to cherish.
STARRED REVIEW. --Publishers Weekly
This is the kind of book that can hook a 10-year-old for life or steer adults toward new territory.
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