Van Gogh's Flowers
Author(s): Debra N. Mancoff
Van Gogh was inspired by the beauty and colours of nature. He brought this passion to life in some of the most vibrant depictions of the natural world ever put to canvas. This book takes a look at this side of the artist's life and work. It offers insight into the artist's unique vision with the help of his most beautiful paintings and excerpts from his own writings. We see that flowers such as the iris and the sunflower served as emblems of self-identity and that the fields were a testament to the cycle of life and a warning of the inevitability of death. The book offers a portrait of the joy and pleasure that Van Gogh experienced in his life and expressed with his brush.
Product Information
- A selection of more than 40 of Van Gogh's most vibrant flower paintings - Extracts from Van Gogh's own writings on his subjects - Published in a new hardback gift edition
Debra N. Mancoff is an art historian and a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago. She lectures regularly at many of the major museums in the United States and Great Britain.
General Fields
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- : Quarto Publishing Group UK
- : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
- : 10 September 2008
- : 222mm X 222mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Debra N. Mancoff
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 759.9492
- : 96
- : 48 colour illustrations