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Becoming van Gogh

Author: Timothy J Standring; Louis van Tilborgh; Vincent van Gogh; Denver Art Museum.
Publisher: [Denver, Colorado] : Denver Art Museum, New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press. 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : Picture : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The career path of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), one of the world's most recognizable artists, was anything but typical. Focusing on the early stages of van Gogh's artistic development, Becoming van Gogh illustrates the artist's efforts to master draftsmanship, understand the challenges of materials and techniques, incorporate color theory, and fold myriad influences into his artistic vocabulary. Van Gogh was aware  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Exhibitions
Named Person: Vincent van Gogh
Material Type: Picture
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Timothy J Standring; Louis van Tilborgh; Vincent van Gogh; Denver Art Museum.
ISBN: 9780300186864 030018686X 9780914738770 0914738771
OCLC Number: 827780139
Notes: This publication accompanies an exhibition of the same title, on view at Denver Art Museum from 21 October 2012 through 20 January 2013, organized by the Denver Art Museum in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Contents: Director's forward / Christoph Heinrich --
Curators' Preface / Timothy J. Standring and Louis van Tilborgh --
Notes to the reader --
Van Gogh in search of his own voice / Louis van Tilborgh and Evert van Uitert --
"Teaching us to see" : van Gogh and the natural world / Richard Kendall --
"A big, good enterprise" : van Gogh and his markets / Simon Kelly --
Van Gogh and thinking nude / Nicole Myers --
Van Gogh's topography : (a little bit) true to nature / Teio Meedendorp --
Vincent's progress / Timothy J. Standring --
Plates --
Van Gogh timeline / Alisia Robin Coon --
Map of van Gogh's whereabouts --
Checklist of the exhibition.
Responsibility: edited by Timothy Standring, Louis van Tilborgh ; with essays by Simon Kelly [and seven others].

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Focusing on the early stages of Van Gogh's (1853-1890) artistic development, this book illustrates the artist's efforts to master draftsmanship, understand the challenges of materials and techniques,  Read more...

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