About this title: Van Gogh's fascination with contemporary literature has never been studied as comprehensively as it is in this book, which includes an analysis of Van Gogh's reading habits. The author demonstrates that the Dutch painter considered modern French literature the epitome of cutting edge cultural production, and argues that the work and pronouncements of the writers he most admired - Zola, Maupassant, Daudet, and the Goncourt brothers - informed his notion of modernism by providing entree into the world of the Parisian avant-garde. The painter's production and his predilection for Naturalist ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/NY
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521410809ISBN:0521410800
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., only the slightest appearance of handling-no flaws, clean, no writing or markings, sound binding.; xxii-336pp., 16 color plates, 59 b/w illustrations., examines the role of contemporary literature in van gogh's life and artwork. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Date Published: March 27, 1992
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover. 336 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Very light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780521410809ISBN:0521410800
Description: Fine in near fine jacket. 75 illustrations in color and black & white. Square 4to, d.w. Cambridge Univ. Press, (1992). First Edition. Near fine. Ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro. read more
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