Van Gogh Face to Face

by Gogh, Vincent Van; Keys, George; Rishel, Joseph J.; Sachs, Katherine; Shackelford, George T. M.; Soth, Lauren; Sund, Judy

• ISBN13: 9780500092903
• ISBN10: 0500092907
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

A month before his suicide in 1890, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister, "What impassions me most -- much, much more than all the rest of my metier -- is the portrait, the modern portrait." In the course of his short, intense career he revolutionized portrait painting, decisively influencing its course in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
The Dutch Roots of Vincent van Gogh	p. 20
Chronology: The Early Years	p. 50
Fantasy and Reality in The Hague Drawings	p. 60
Chronology: Paris	p. 80
Van Gogh in Paris: Between the Past and the Future	p. 86
Chronology: Arles	p. 126
The Arles Period: Symbolic Means, Decorative Ends	p. 134
Chronology: St.-Remy and Auvers	p. 172
Famine to Feast: Portrait Making at St.-Remy and Auvers	p. 182
The Modern Legacy of van Gogh's Portraits	p. 228
Notes	p. 249
References	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 264
List of Illustrations	p. 266
Index	p. 270
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