VAN GOGH: FIELDS. THE FIELD WITH POPPIES AND THE ARTISTS' DISPUTE. [Vincent van Gogh.]

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890. Wulf Herzogenrath and Dorothee Hansen (editors). Kunsthalle Bremen. Roland Dorn; Barbara Nierhoff; Andreas Strobl; Thomas Schrader (contributors).

ISBN 10: 3775711317 / ISBN 13: 9783775711319

Published by Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany - New York: Hatje Cantz Publishers - D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (distributor), 2002., 2002

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Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided on rear copyright page). 251 pages. Hardcover: H 31cm x L 24.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight bumping at edges. Yellow cloth. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.5 pounds (2 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 3775711317.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VAN GOGH: FIELDS. THE FIELD WITH POPPIES AND THE ARTISTS' DISPUTE. [Vincent van Gogh.]
• Publisher: Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany - New York: Hatje Cantz Publishers - D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (distributor), 2002.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775711317
• ISBN 13: 9783775711319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

Vincent van Gogh arrived in Saint-Ramy-de-Provence in 1889 to be voluntarily treated for psychiatric illness. Poppyfield was one of the first pictures that the artist painted that year of the countryside surrounding the asylum, and it continues the leitmotif of fields which runs throughout his oeuvre. Van Gogh's mind was rooted in the cycles of nature, from the mythical sower to the flowering corn to the autumnal reaper. What The Poppyfield and the Artist's Protest also reveals is the artistic possibilities hidden in his conception of the landscape, in the perspectival effect of depth and the accentuation of the canvas's surface. More than 50 paintings and drawings by the Dutch artist are represented here, all of them a tribute to van Gogh's idiosyncratic interpretation of the landscape. Additionally, this publication discusses the particular situation of Poppyfield, which was acquired by the Bremen Kunsthalle in 1911 amid the protests of German artists who were against the arrival of French modernism in German museums. Bremen curator Gustav Pauli, with the support of artists like Max Lieberman and Wassily Kandinsky, defended the purchase.

About the Author

Born in 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Holland, Vincent van Gogh began his career in the art trade, working for art dealers in The Hague, London, and Paris. He later worked as a private teacher and Methodist preacher. He travelled to Paris in 1886 and settled in Arles two years later, where he made the acquaintance of Paul Gauguin. Following a nervous breakdown in 1889, he spent a year in a psychiatric clinic in Saint-Rémy, after which he was treated privately in Auvers-sur-Oise. It was there that he committed suicide, in 1890, following a severe bout of depression.