1st Edition

Van Gogh And Gauguin Electric Arguments And Utopian Dreams

By Bradley Collins Copyright 2002
282 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
Illustrations, Preface, Van Gogh: Zundert to Paris, Gauguin: Lima to Pont-Aven, Van Gogh in Paris and First Encounters with Gauguin, Jean Valjean and the Buddhist Monk: Van Gogh in Anticipation of Gauguin, Electric Arguments: "Le Bon Vincent" and "Le Grièche Gauguin", Aftermath, Chronology, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index

Biography

BRADLEY COLLINS is an art historian and an instructor at the Parsons School of Design at The New School University. He has written on Renaissance as well as 19th- and 20th-century art for Art Journal, Art in America, The Village Voice, and other publications. He is also the author of Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History.