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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with
their Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have
written another tour de force--an exquisitely detailed,
compellingly readable portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Working with
the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh
and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials
to bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology
of this great artist: his early struggles to find his place in the
world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; and his move
to Provence, where he painted some of the best-loved works in
Western art. The authors also shed new light on many unexplored
aspects of Van Gogh's inner world: his erratic and tumultuous
romantic life; his bouts of depression and mental illness; and the
cloudy circumstances surrounding his death at the age of
thirty-seven.
Though countless books have been written about Van Gogh, no
serious, ambitious examination of his life has been attempted in
more than seventy years. Naifeh and Smith have re-created Van
Gogh's life with an astounding vividness and psychological acuity
that bring a completely new and sympathetic understanding to this
unique artistic genius.
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Praise for "Van Gogh: The Life"
"Magisterial."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"This generation's definitive portrait of the great Dutch
post-Impressionist."--"Time"
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"A tour de force . . . an enormous achievement . . . Reading his
life story is like riding an endless roller coaster of delusional
highs and lows. . . . A] sweepingly authoritative, astonishingly
textured book."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Marvelous . . . "Van Gogh"] reads like a novel, full of suspense
and intimate detail. . . . In beautiful prose, Naifeh and Smith
argue convincingly for a subtler, more realistic evaluation of Van
Gogh, and we all win."--"The Washington Post"
"Brilliant . . . At once a model of scholarship and an emotive,
pacy chunk of hagiography."--"The Daily Telegraph "(London)
A "NEW YORK TIMES" NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "THE WASHINGTON POST -
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE" - NPR - "THE
ECONOMIST - NEWSDAY" - BOOKREPORTER
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