9780375758973-0375758976-Van Gogh: The Life

Van Gogh: The Life

ISBN-13: 9780375758973
ISBN-10: 0375758976
Edition: Reprint
Author: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 976 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375758973
ISBN-10: 0375758976
Edition: Reprint
Author: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 976 pages

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Van Gogh: The Life (ISBN-13: 9780375758973 and ISBN-10: 0375758976), written by authors Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith, was published by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists (Painting, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Van Gogh: The Life (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.5.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The definitive biography for decades to come.”—Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters

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.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • The Economist Newsday • BookReporter


“In their magisterial new biography, Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith provide a guided tour through the personal world and work of that Dutch painter, shining a bright light on the evolution of his art. . . . What [the authors] capture so powerfully is Van Gogh’s extraordinary will to learn, to persevere against the odds.”Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Brilliant . . . Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith are the big-game hunters of modern art history. . . . [Van Gogh] rushes along on a tide of research. . . . At once a model of scholarship and an emotive, pacy chunk of hagiography.”—Martin Herbert, The Daily Telegraph (London)
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