Van Gogh : still lifes

Book 2019

"From his first paintings to the colorful flower images of his later career, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) repeatedly painted still lifes. In this genre, he could try out various media and alternatives--from depicting space using light and shadow to experiments with color. The first exhibition on this theme will present 27 paintings and use them to analyze the key stages in van Gogh's life and work. Van Gogh: Still Lifes is the first systematic ex...

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ISBN:

9783791358727

Description:

264 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Still lifes

Notes:

"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh: Still Lifes, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, October 26, 2019 to February 2, 2020"--Page 264
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261)

Contents:

The power of the everyday: Vincent van Gogh's still lifes / Sjraar van Heugten
Tradition and adaptation: the reception of the Dutch Old Masters in Van Gogh's still life / Michael Philipp
From "snot tones" to "sound colours": Van Gogh and colour theory / Marije Vellekoop
"He is painting flowers mostly": Van Gogh's Parisian floral still lifes / Stefan Koldehoff
Van Gogh's late still-life paintings: from still to life / Eliza Rathbone
Van Gogh or not? Forgeries, copies, and misattributions in Van Gogh's still lifes / Oliver Tostmann
Fetish and alienation: Van Gogh and the end of the still life / Michael F. Zimmermann
Catalog of exhibited works / Michael Pilipp and Valerie Hortolani
Vincent van Gogh: a biography / Valerie Hortolani
"To paint a given object, whatever the shape or colour may be, without hesitation": passages on still life from Van Gogh's letters / selected by Michael Philipp
"A painful examination of things": contemporaries, collectors, and philosophers on Van Gogh's still lifes / selected by Michael Philipp

LCCN:

2019950602

Control Number:

2885546

Other Authors:

Heugten, Sjraar van, author
Hortolani, Valerie, author
Koldehoff, Stefan, author
Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany), host institution
Philipp, Michael, 1962- author, editor
Rathbone, Eliza E., 1948- author
Tostmann, Oliver, author
Vellekoop, Marije, author
Westheider, Ortrud, editor
Zimmerman, Michael F. (Art historian), author

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