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2021

Title:	Van Gogh and the artists he loved / Steven Naifeh ; afterword by Ann Dumas.
Author:	Naifeh, Steven, 1952- author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Random House, [2021]
Description:	xxxvi, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Summary:	To us, Van Gogh's paintings look utterly unique. His vivid palates and wildly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his--yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now, drawing on Van Gogh's own thoughtful and often poetic comments about the artists he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of his deep immersion in their work.
Subjects:	Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Criticism and interpretation. Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Sources.
Genre:	Biographies.
Other Author:	Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890. Dumas, Ann, author of afterword.
Notes:	Includes index. Searchable bibliography and notes for book are available online.
Contents:	Religion -- Peasant life -- The downtrodden -- The Hague school -- Romanticism -- The Barbizon school -- English art and the graphic -- Japonisme and Japanese prints -- The female sitter -- Still life -- Literature and the French novel -- Academic art -- Impressionism -- The art of the Petit boulevard -- The sea -- Living in Vincent's mind -- Afterword: Van Gogh and his legacy by Ann Dumas.
ISBN:	9780593356678
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Author Biography

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Steven Naifeh studied art history at Princeton and Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. Together with his late husband and co-author Gregory White Smith, he is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Van Gogh: The Life. Their biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired the Academy Award–winning film Pollock as well as John Updike’s novel Seek My Face. Naifeh, also an artist whose works are included in numerous museum collections, has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and USA Today and has appeared twice on 60 Minutes. He lives in South Carolina. - (Random House, Inc.)

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