Published by Thames & Hudson and The Detroit Institute of Arts, New York & Detroit, MI, 2000
ISBN 10: 0500092907 ISBN 13: 9780500092903
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Essays by Roland Dorn, George S. Keyes, Joseph J Rischel with Katherine Sachs, George T. M. Shackelford, Lauren Soth, Lauren Soth and Judy Sund. Includes 228 illustrations with 204 in color. An about near fine copy with some bumping to the corners and a small owner signature to the front free endpaper in a near fine dust jacket with the same bumping to the corners. An attractive monograph that focuses on the portraits by this master artist.
Published by Detroit Institute of Arts/Thames and Hudson, Detroit, MI, 2000
ISBN 10: 0895581531 ISBN 13: 9780895581532
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in silver foil. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket as issued, now in archival mylar. 272 pp., 228 illus., including 204 color. Catalogue to accompany 2000-01 traveling exhibition at Detroit, Boston, and Philadelphia. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.
Published by Detroit MI. 2000. The Detroit Institute Of Arts in association with Thames & Hudson., 2000
ISBN 10: 0895581531 ISBN 13: 9780895581532
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
black hardcover ~ 2º (folio). large "coffee table" book (9.5"x12"), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Van Gogh: Face to Face,' organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [The Detroit Institute of Arts 12 March~4 June 2000 / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2 July~24 September 2000 / Philadelphia Museum of Art 22 October 2000~14 January 2001.] 4 pages of full color frontis. portraits. b&w map of france. 272p. glossy pages throughout. With 228 illustrations, 204 in color. notes. references. list of illustrations. index. biography. art history. art books. exhibition catalogues. ~ A month before his suicide in 1890, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister, "What impassions me most~ much, much more than all the rest of my métier is the portrait, the modern portrait." In the course of his short, intense career he revolutionized portrait painting, decisively influencing its course in the twentieth century. Here, for the first time, the great portraits from all stages of van Gogh's life are collected together. The story begins with the extraordinary and relatively unknown body of vivid, carefully executed drawings of paupers and laborers produced in The Hague when he was a young man. It continues with van Gogh's time in Paris, where the influence of Impressionism, Japanese art, and contemporaries such as Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard led him to produce some of his most famous images: Portrait of Père Tanguy (1887), Self~Portrait with Gray Felt Hat (1887), and Self~Portrait as an Artist (1887~88), to name a few. And it culminates with such penetrating masterpieces as Self~Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), Portrait of a Farmer (1889), and Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890), created in Arles, St.Rémy, and Auvers immediately before and after the artist's devastating final breakdown. Each work is beautifully reproduced and set in context by leading scholars. Individually, their essays focus on particular groups of work, shedding new light on van Gogh's aims and methods. Collectively, they establish the centrality of portraiture to his uvre. The result is nothing less than a wholly original way of looking at van Gogh~ unprecedented and wonderfully revealing view of his enduring achievement as an artist.
Published by Detroit Institute of Arts/Thames & Hudson, Detroit, MI, 2000
ISBN 10: 0500282234 ISBN 13: 9780500282236
Seller: Pegasus Books, Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. Exhibition Catalogue Series; Color Illustrations; 9 x 12 x 3/4; 272 pages; Soft cover; exhibition catalogue. Pages are clean and tight, NEW. Inside front cover is a plate, especially made for the art show, by the sponsoring DaimlerChrysler Corporation. Along with book is a sealed CD, made for the show. Features the music of Debussy, Satie, Berlioz, Liszt, and others. This was an amazing show, such a thrill to be surrounded by van Gogh portraits, with their striking colors and lines. "Van Gogh's portraits have been analyzed in books, but the current exhibition brings them together for ready comparison, a first, according to Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, a professor of fine art at the University of Toronto. 'What is more contributory and interesting for scholars and connoisseurs is to see them in a new context,' ' she said. With 31 drawings and 36 paintings, the exhibition traces van Gogh's rapid development in capturing faces on canvas. The earliest drawings demonstrate how van Gogh, a disillusioned theology student literally studying how-to books on becoming an artist, produced works of a style and vision that went far beyond the instructions in the manuals. The later paintings show his evolution from realistic representations of the faces of the poor to interpretations of his face and those of friends in his final years, in France". Notes; index. Oversized.