Van Gogh and Gauguin
Subtitle: The Studio of the South
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780500510544
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Gogh, Vincent van,; Biography; Arles; Netherlands; Exhibition Catalogs; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Biography / Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Art; Artists; Personal Memoirs; France; 1853-1890; Artistic collaboration
Description: "The friendship of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin - including an intense, two-month collaboration in Aries, in the south of France - is one of the most revealing and dynamic relationships in the history of modern art. When they first met in Paris in late 1887, they were two of a number of artists seeking a way to move beyond impressionism.

They found common ground in the belief that progressive art should be created at a distance from urban decadence, a conviction that led Gauguin to Brittany and van Gogh to Aries in the early months of 1888.".

"Published on the occasion of a landmark exhibition organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the book is a provocative study of influence and innovation. With a wealth of illustrations, it offers a new perspective on some of the best-known masterpieces of modern art, as well as fresh insight into two of its central personalities."--BOOK JACKET.