这本Taschen社出版的《Van Gogh》是唯一一本收录了梵高871张全部画作的专书,如果想要全面了解梵谷,这本平价的艺术书籍是最佳超值选择。
梵谷一生可以说是相当讽刺的,他生前的生活相当的不快乐,甚至没有钱过生活,当时他的画作在当时只能卖到五到十分钱的价格,很难相信现在他的画作,动辄可以在拍卖会场卖出上亿的天价。梵谷1853年出生于法国的布拉邦省,他25岁时搬到法国南方的普罗旺斯地区,他在此时藉由大量的作画抒解内心的矛盾与遇到的挫折,直到他举枪自尽死亡之前,他的画作仍不被大家欣赏,而当时他只不过37岁。不过他大量的画作却在他死后受到收藏家与其他画家的欣赏。
FOREWORD Deserted
CHAPTER I THE MAKING OF AN ARTIST 1853-1883
The Family 1853-1875
Van Gogh's Other Art The Letters
The Religious Maniac 1875-1880
"No Beginning but in God" Van Gogh and Religion
First Steps as anArtist 1880-1881
Van Gogh's Early Models
Family Life The Hague I882-x883
Art and Responsibility Commitments for the Future
No Soul, No Self Drente 1883
CHAPTER II THE YEARS IN NUENEN 1883-1885
An Artist Pure and Simple The First Year
Progress The Weavers Series
"With all my strength" Winter 1884-1885
Painting as Manifesto The Potato Easter
Understanding and Suspicion Summer and Autum 1885
Colour and the Finished Work Evolving a Theory of Art
CHAPTER III CITY LIFE 1885-1888
The Antwerp Interlude Winter 1885-1886
A Dutchman in Paris 1886-1888
Through the Window 1886
Isms, Isms, Isms The 1887 Watershed
The far East on his Doorstep Van Gogh and Japonism
FOreWORD The Unity of Art and Life
CHAPTER IV PAINTING AND UTOPIA Aries, February 1888 to May 1889
Aries: The Heart of Japan
Personal Impressionism Orchards in Blossom
Under a Southern Sun May to August 1888
Working without Painting Van Gogh's Drawings
Enchantment and Affliction The Night Paintings of September 1888
The Dream of an Artists' Community September and October 1888
Aesthetic Subtlety Van Gogh and Symbolism
Genius and Error: Gauguin in Aries October to December 1888
Art and Madness
The Supportive Power of Pictures January to May 1889
CHAPTER V "ALMOST A CRY OF FEAR" Saint-Remy, May 1889 to May 1890
The Monastic Life
Olives, Cypresses and Hills Van Gogh's Compacted Landscape
The Portraits
Space and Colour Metaphors of Paradox
Exhibitions and Criticism Van Gogh's First Successes
Selfhood and Otherness Homage to the Masters
Ways of Escape The Final Months in Saint-Remy
Reverence and Awe Van Gogh and Nature
CHAPTER VI THE END Auvers-sur-Oise, May to July 189o
On Doctor Gaehet's Territory
Frieze Art Van Gogh's "Art nouveau"
"I wish it were all over now" Suicide
A Revolution in Art: Modernism
APPENDICES Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 A Chronology
Bibliography
Index of PaIntings
Index of Names