Van Gogh in all his words, a man of his century.
Champ Vallon| N° d'inventaire | 25772 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 440 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Ceyzérieu, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791026711124 |
“Detours” Collection.
Reading the many biographies devoted to him, Van Gogh remains the object of representations that are completely opposed: sometimes he is made a victim of society, sometimes a manipulator; but also an individual forming with his brother Theo a couple of speculators, betting on the final success of his production; or even an anarchist and an anticlerical.
Based on his correspondence, this book aims to hear Vincent's own voice and capture the complex personality of a man living in an era whose changes he questions. In his letters, particularly those to his brother Theo, he evokes his passion for reading and the eclecticism of his literary tastes, his dream of an artistic community of which he would be the initiator, his relationship with his host country, France, but also with exotic imaginary lands, his mythologized vision of a bygone and regretted past as well as a future both hoped for and feared. But also his Christian faith turning to mysticism and then to doubt, his relationship with nature with which God ends up merging, his unfulfilled need for love and his vain quest for a woman with whom to form a couple.
These letters, with their autobiographical and romantic tone, reveal the inner self of a man who, faced with the lack of recognition for his artistic production, saw himself as a sort of pariah in a society that nevertheless never ceased to hope for a better future.
“Detours” Collection.
Reading the many biographies devoted to him, Van Gogh remains the object of representations that are completely opposed: sometimes he is made a victim of society, sometimes a manipulator; but also an individual forming with his brother Theo a couple of speculators, betting on the final success of his production; or even an anarchist and an anticlerical.
Based on his correspondence, this book aims to hear Vincent's own voice and capture the complex personality of a man living in an era whose changes he questions. In his letters, particularly those to his brother Theo, he evokes his passion for reading and the eclecticism of his literary tastes, his dream of an artistic community of which he would be the initiator, his relationship with his host country, France, but also with exotic imaginary lands, his mythologized vision of a bygone and regretted past as well as a future both hoped for and feared. But also his Christian faith turning to mysticism and then to doubt, his relationship with nature with which God ends up merging, his unfulfilled need for love and his vain quest for a woman with whom to form a couple.
These letters, with their autobiographical and romantic tone, reveal the inner self of a man who, faced with the lack of recognition for his artistic production, saw himself as a sort of pariah in a society that nevertheless never ceased to hope for a better future.