Vincent Van Gogh
Subtitle: timeless country, modern city
By: edited by Cornelia Homburg ; [translations, Wendy van Os-Thompson from Dutch to English, Simon Turner from Italian to English]
Contributors: Reynaerts, Jenny, 1960-; Greer, Joan Eileen; Sund, Judy; Palazzo del Vittoriano (Rome, Italy)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Skira; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milano; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9788857208251
Subjects: Landscape painting; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Other titles: Timeless country, modern city
Description: "A volume which explores Van Gogh's oeuvre through two fundamental aspects of his artistic identity: his love for the countryside and his attachment to the city. Admired for his light-filled landscapes as much as for his impassioned portraits, Vincent van Gogh was an impetuous painter with a cavalier disregard for convention when it suited him. At the same time he was a sophisticated thinker, fluent in several languages, and trained as an art dealer. Though often plagued by several doubts about his work, he was immensely ambitious and ultimately had a clear sense of his oeuvre as a whole and the place it was to take in the history of art. Such apparently contradictory positions define much of Van Gogh's life and artistic output. They are also at the basis of this volume, which explores Van Gogh's oeuvre through two fundamental aspects of his artistic identity: his love for the countryside as a stable, never-changing environment and his attachment to the city as the center of fast-moving, modern life. The catalog features works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Francois Millet, Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Charles Francois Daubigny, Anton Mauve; prints after Daubigny, Daumier, Millet, that Van Gogh himself collected and copied as well as etchings and aquatints by Pissarro and Cezanne; and five letters written by Van Gogh to friends, colleagues, and art critics. It accompanies an exhibition at Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano that begins on February 20, 2011." --Publisher's website.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Complesso monumentale del Vittoriano, Rome, Oct. 8, 2010-Feb. 6, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279).
Table of contents: title: Imagining city and country  -- Cornelia Homburg; title: On the edge :; title: Van Gogh's early ideas on city and countryside  -- Jenny Reynaerts; title: Van Gogh and the modern landscape in France :; title: urban edges, the industrial suburb and rural labour  -- Joan Greer; title: Country man/city man :; title: dichotomy and hybridity in Van Gogh's figure paintings  -- Judy Sund; title: Van Gogh :; title: the city, the countryside, and the countryside in the city  -- Sjaar van Heugten; title: Works --; title: Van Gogh's landscapes  -- Chris Stolwijk; title: Entries  -- Rakhee Balaram ... [et al.]; title: Chronology.