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Van Gogh : still lifes /

"From his first paintings to the colorful flower images of his later career, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) repeatedly painted still lifes. In this genre, he could try out various media and alternatives--from depicting space using light and shadow to experiments with color. The first exhibition o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Heugten, Sjraar van (Author), Hortolani, Valerie (Author), Koldehoff, Stefan (Author), Rathbone, Eliza E., 1948- (Author), Tostmann, Oliver (Author), Vellekoop, Marije (Author), Zimmerman, Michael F. (Art historian) (Author)
Other Authors: Westheider, Ortrud (Editor), Philipp, Michael, 1962- (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Munich : Prestel, 2019.
Series:Barberini Studien.
Museum Barberini publication series.
Subjects:
Gogh, Vincent van, > 1853-1890 > Exhibitions.
Gogh, Vincent van, > 1853-1890 > Criticism and interpretation.
Gogh, Vincent van, > 1853-1890.
Still-life painting, Dutch > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Still-life painting, Dutch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • The power of the everyday: Vincent van Gogh's still lifes / Sjraar van Heugten
  • Tradition and adaptation: the reception of the Dutch Old Masters in Van Gogh's still life / Michael Philipp
  • From "snot tones" to "sound colours": Van Gogh and colour theory / Marije Vellekoop
  • "He is painting flowers mostly": Van Gogh's Parisian floral still lifes / Stefan Koldehoff
  • Van Gogh's late still-life paintings: from still to life / Eliza Rathbone
  • Van Gogh or not? Forgeries, copies, and misattributions in Van Gogh's still lifes / Oliver Tostmann
  • Fetish and alienation: Van Gogh and the end of the still life / Michael F. Zimmermann
  • Catalog of exhibited works / Michael Pilipp and Valerie Hortolani
  • Vincent van Gogh: a biography / Valerie Hortolani
  • "To paint a given object, whatever the shape or colour may be, without hesitation": passages on still life from Van Gogh's letters / selected by Michael Philipp
  • "A painful examination of things": contemporaries, collectors, and philosophers on Van Gogh's still lifes / selected by Michael Philipp.