Vincent Van Gogh: A Life / Edition 1

Vincent Van Gogh: A Life / Edition 1

by Philip Callow
ISBN-10:
1566631343
ISBN-13:
9781566631341
Pub. Date:
08/01/1996
Publisher:
Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
ISBN-10:
1566631343
ISBN-13:
9781566631341
Pub. Date:
08/01/1996
Publisher:
Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Vincent Van Gogh: A Life / Edition 1

Vincent Van Gogh: A Life / Edition 1

by Philip Callow

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Overview

Published on the hundredth anniversary of Van Gogh’s death, this is the first full-length biography of this undying man in twenty years and surely the most comprehensive account to date. Mr. Callow treats more searchingly than any previous work the development of Van Gogh’s genius and his emergence as an artist after early struggles to find a vocation, first in the world of art dealing and later as an evangelical missionary among Belgian miners. Using the skills and psychological insights of an accomplished novelist, and drawing upon new Van Gogh materials which have surfaced in the last two decades, Mr. Callow sets a turbulent life story firmly in historical context, including Vincent’s desperate attempts to accept his repressive religious upbringing, and his unhappy experiences in love. The story is filled with paradoxes and crushing failures, ending in suicide that was to lead to enormous posthumous success. Through Mr. Callow’s book we can see Van Gogh’s life and work in terms of tumult, of a legend breaking out of the triumph and confusion of 19th-century culture while representing it uniquely. It is perhaps the story of a saint, certainly a hero of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566631341
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date: 08/01/1996
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Philip Callow's biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Son and Lover and Body of Truth, were widely praised. Mr. Callow, himself a novelist, poet, and biographer, has also written lives of Chekhov, Cézanne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walt Whitman, all published to critical acclaim. Mr. Callow lives and writes in England.
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