Van Gogh and Gauguin The Search for Sacred Art

Name: Van Gogh and Gauguin The Search for Sacred Art
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ISBN: 9780374529321

ISBN-10: 0374529329

ISBN-13: 9780374529321

Edition: 2004

Authors: Debora Silverman

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A leading scholar offers fresh insight into one of the key moments in modern art history During the fall of 1888, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and worked together in Provence. There in a yellow house at Arles, they changed the course of modern art. The relationship between the two painters came at a critical point in each of their careers, and began as a plan for a new community of artist-brothers, who would flourish in a harmonious condition of mutual support. While the two painters never achieved the goal of brotherly harmony, they nonetheless found their creativity spurred by association. Until now, the Arles period has been interpreted in the light of the temperamental…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 9.52" wide x 8.02" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.022
Language: English



Illustrations


Introduction



Toward Collaboration



Self-Portraits



Peasant Subjects and Sacred Forms



Van Gogh's Sower



Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon



Catholic Idealism and Dutch Reformed Realism



A Seminary Education



"A Passion for Reality"



Collaboration in Arles



Economics



The Alyscamps Paintings



Grape Harvests



Remembered Gardens



Theologies of Art After Arles



Gauguin's Miseres



Van Gogh's Berceuse



Modernist Catechism and Sacred Realism



Gauguin's Last Testament



Van Gogh's Metier


Biographical Outline of the Two Artists


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index