Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits

Van Gogh, Vincent; Dorn, Roland, et al. (Essays by)

ISBN 10: 0500092907 / ISBN 13: 9780500092903

Published by Detroit Institute of Arts; Thames & Hudson, Detroit and New York, 2000

About this Item

Cloth, 272 pages, colour illustrations, maps; 32 cm. Exhibition held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 12 March to 4 June 2000; and other venues. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with a sunned spine. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, this book brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life. The story begins with the relatively unknown body of vivid, carefully executed drawings of orphans and paupers 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 like Gauguin and Bernard led him to produce some of his most famous images." "Each work is 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 oeuvre." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction, by George S. Keyes, Joseph J. Rishel, George T.M. Shackelford; The Dutch Roots of Vincent van Gogh, by George S. Keyes; Chronology: The Early Years; Fantasy and Reality in The Hague Drawings, by Lauren Soth; Chronology: Paris; Van Gogh in Paris: Between the Past and the Future, by George T.M. Shackelford; Chronology: Arles; The Arles Period: Symbolic Means, Decorative Ends, by Roland Dorn; Chronology: St.-Remy and Auvers; Famine to Feast: Portrait Making at St.-Remy and Auvers, by Judy Sund; The Modern Legacy of van Gogh's Portraits, by Joseph J. Rishel, Katherine Sachs. Size: Folio.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits
• Publisher: Detroit Institute of Arts; Thames & Hudson, Detroit and New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500092907
• ISBN 13: 9780500092903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Genre & Subject::Portraiture
  • European::Dutch, Belgian & Flemish
  • European::7. Late 19th Century
  • XXXL: Jumbo

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Synopsis

More than two hundred full-color reproductions complement an authoritative study of the portrait paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, providing a close-up look at works from all stages of his career in essays by six distinguished art historians. 15,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

About the Author

Roland Dorn, an independent scholar, has published widely on van Gogh. George S. Keyes is Curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Joseph J. Rishel is Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. George T. M. Shackelford is Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lauren Soth is Professor of Art History at Carleton College. Judy Sund is Professor of Art History at Queens College.