Van Gogh and Gauguin

Author(s): Collins, Bradley Publisher: Westview Press Format: Hardcover List Price:  Rs. 1,458 Category: History ISBN-10: 0813335957 Language: English Pages: 264 Dimensions: 9.24" l x 6.40" w x 0.73" h

Overview:

Although Vincent van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's artistic collaboration in the south of France lasted only two months' their stormy relationship has continued to fascinate art historians' biographers' and psychoanalysts' as well as film-makers and the general public. Van Gogh and Gauguin explores the artists' intertwined lives from a psychoanalytic perspective' drawing a nuanced and sophisticated picture of the artists' dealings with each other. The book also examines the aesthetic convictions that united and divided the two men' and the extent to which they influenced each other's art.