Van Gogh : the asylum year
Mullins, Edwin B.2015
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On May 8, 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to the Saint Paul Asylum in Saint-Remy, an isolated estate where he remained as a voluntary patient for a full year. Throughout this time, Van Gogh kept up a continuous correspondence with his brother Theo about his art, mental condition, hopes, and ambitions, along with his despair and sense of failure. His asylum year was Van Gogh's most raw and desperate period, yet also his most creative, producing nearly a masterpiece a day. He painted many of his most famous works at the asylum, such as The Round of the Prisoners, Sorrowing Old Man, and Starry Night. In this book, Edwin Mullins offers a month-by-month account of that crucial penultimate chapter in Van Gogh's life. Mullins examines this period as a self-contained episode, unique within the history of Van Gogh's artistic genius.
Van Gogh : the asylum year / Edwin Mullins.
London : Unicorn Press, 2015.
144 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781910065532 (pbk)1910065536
759.9'492759.9492
English
903871