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Item Number: 85225
Title: VAN GOGH: A Literary Mind : Literature in the correspondence of Vincent van Gogh
Author: van der Veen, Wouter
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789040085628
Description: Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. 24cm., hardcover, 262pp., 20 color, 11 b&w illus. Publisher's summary: Vincent van Gogh was a voracious reader. In his letters he mentions more than 150 authors and at least 200 works from the Bible to religious poetry and from Charles Dickens to Emile Zola. This second volume of Van Gogh Studies, Van Gogh: A Literary Mind examines Van Gogh’s literary journey as it emerges through the 1100 references found in his correspondence. It is an exploration of the literary universe of a passionate reader, in constant search of texts that could be applied to his own reality. Having worked on the Van Gogh Letters Project, Wouter van der Veen has made a close study of the most important texts referred to in Van Gogh’s correspondence, and has come to the surprising conclusion that Van Gogh was seldom influenced, in the sense that many art historians have argued, by what he read but rather regarded literature as a mirror that reflected and confirmed his own views. (Van Gogh Studies, 2)
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