Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams

Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.: Westview Press. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0813335957 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 280 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Illustrations vii Preface * 1 Van Gogh: Zundert to Paris * 2 Gauguin: Lima to Pont-Aven * 3 Van Gogh in Paris and First Encounters with Gauguin * 4 Jean Valjean and the Buddhist Monk: Van Gogh in Anticipation of Gauguin * 5 Electric Arguments: "Le Bon Vincent" and "Le Grieche Gauguin" * 6 Aftermath * Chronology * Notes * Selected Bibliography * Index 257. -- DESCRIPTION: Explores the tumultuous relationship between two great masters of 19th century painting, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and the impact of that relationship on their art. Although Vincent van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's artistic collaboration in the South of France lasted no more than two months, their stormy relationship has continued to fascinate art historians, biographers and psychoanalysts as well as film makers and the general public. Two great 19th century figures with powerful and often clashing sensibilities, they shared a house, worked side by side, drank, caroused and argued passionately about art. Their brief venture together, richly documented in the artists' letters and paintings, would be compelling enough even if it had not culminated in the catastrophe of van Gogh's life - his ear cutting. This traumatic climax to van Gogh's and Gauguin's weeks spent in the "Yellow House" in Arles has raised profound questions about the nature of their relationship and about their behavior before and after van Gogh's self-mutilation. Van Gogh and Gauguin will explore the artists' intertwined lives from a psychoanalytic perspective in order to draw a nuanced and sophisticated picture of the artists' dealings with each other. The book will also examine crucial art historical issues such as the aesthetic convictions that both united and divided the two men, and the extent to which they influenced each other's art. -- with a bonus offer-- .