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title: "Van Gogh: A Power Seething (Icons)"
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# Van Gogh: A Power Seething (Icons)

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## Customer Reviews

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    another perspective of the artist
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018*

Van Gogh: A Seething Power is a biography of artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) based on the artist’s letters to his brother Theo and others. After Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith’s 953-page biography Van Gogh: The Life (2011), what else is there to say? This 176-page book skims through everything.Quickly readers see van Gogh in 1877 in his early 20s, quitting his studies to become a pastor, as he says in a letter: ‘One sometimes gets the feeling, where am I? what am I doing? where am I going? and one starts to grow dizzy.’ Dashing to 1883 ‘the ever-hard-up, ever-fractious edge-of-town loner with the benefactor brother shuttled between various lines of artistic research.’Decriptions of the artist’s days in Antwerp and Paris provide more of the author’s passion, if not detail, and more interest for readers as van Gogh experiences challenging brotherly ties with Theo, a deep friendship with fellow artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and tempestuous nights with Paul Gauguin.To 1888 and the solitude of the sea brings about van Gogh’s ‘colourist’ period, but also his troubles, as he cuts off part of his ear. Bell briefly elaborates on the breakdown years. Enter Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, his brother’s wife in 1890, who ‘more than any single person aside from Vincent and Theo themselves, was responsible for the iconic status that van Gogh now possesses.’ And so the biography becomes more interesting.There is still the question: why another Vincent van Gogh book? Julian Bell wrote the book because he loved ‘the letter writer of heart piercing eloquence.’Bell’s premise is that there were three facets to Vincent van Gogh: the painter, the letter writer, and the social misfit ‘tearing a ragged course through the late nineteenth-century Netherlands and France.’ Bell’s objective is to present an interpretation of why van Gogh’s letters were often ‘at odds’ with what he ‘actually painted and with the record of his actions’ – the gap between the three facets of the man.Given that this biography gets rapidly to the point, it’s a quick read, like a sprint: quick out of the blocks, a period of slow motion, then the most exciting part at the last 10 metres – and it’s all over before you know it. Nevertheless, for van Gogh lovers, this is another perspective in understanding the man and his paintings.

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    A Must Read For Any Van Gogh "Fan"
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2015*

I can add very little to the excellent reviews which have already been written. I have been a Van Gogh "fan" (of the artist NOT the man) for many years, ever since since I read the majority of the collection of his letters to Theo. ( Interesting that it was  Jo who realized the import of those letters.) It was those letters that actually introduced me to many of the artists to whom he refers. We have subsequently visited many of the locations in which he stayed and from which he painted. I regret that I did not come across this writing before visiting those places. (e.g. Bell's description of the bars on the windows of his room in the asylum being similar to Vincent's old perspective frame, devoid of horizontal stabilizers, is particularly something I wish I had known before visiting but something which has added an entirely new perspective to my understanding of those later works.) There is no doubt that Mr. Bell's being a painter adds a different, invaluable perspective and does tend to make many of the paintings even more poignant....if that's possible.I agree with one reviewer's comment in that I wish more were known about Theo.One negative comment. It would have been helpful to have photos of the works discussed. However as I was checking out "L'allee des Alyscamps" I fell upon the fact that it had just (May, 2015) sold  in NY for $66.3 million which they say , adjusted to today's dollars would be about $153 million. The first owners listed in the Provenance of the painting were Marie and Joseph Ginoux, Arles.

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    Psychological bio
  

*by C***I on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018*

Unlike most biographies, this one doesn't spend much ink compulsively detailing the objective facts.  Those are given to the extent necessary for readers unfamiliar with Van Gogh's life, but the main focus is his emotional and psychological state at each turn.  Of course, Van Gogh is a perfect subject for such treatment, as he was famously emotional and then famously insane and he wrote thousands of letters pouring his heart out to his brother and others.  The author also attempts to apply Van Gogh's psychological state to his artistic decisions with regard to color, draftsmanship and subject matter.  A great read for those interested in psychiatry and its interface with art and Nineteenth Century European history.

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