Research Catalog

Title

Becoming van Gogh / edited by Timothy Standring, Louis van Tilborgh ; with essays by Simon Kelly [and seven others].

Publication

• [Denver, Colorado] : Denver Art Museum, 2012.
• New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Standring, Timothy J., 1950-
• Tilborgh, Louis van
• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.
• Denver Art Museum

Description

287 pages : illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

"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 of avant-garde trends including Georges Seurat's divisionism, Paul Signac's and Camille Pissarro's pointillism, Émile Bernard's synthetism, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's immersion in the bohemian culture of Montmartre.This handsome book features works by van Gogh alongside works by the artists who influenced him, showing how he incorporated elements of their techniques into a style that became, eventually, uniquely his own. It features essays exploring how van Gogh imbued his early works with energy as he strove to master drawing with graphite, ink, and washes; how he began to understand color with watercolor paintings; and how he tested his skill with oils on canvas. The distinguished contributors to this volume offer insight into van Gogh's temperament, memory, typography, and relationship with his critics, among other topics. Generously illustrated with 150 color images, the book also includes a chronology charting the artist's stylistic development"--

Subject

• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 > Exhibitions

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-280) and index.

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.

Call Number

JQG 13-724

ISBN

• 9780300186864 (hardback)
• 030018686X (hardback)
• 9780914738770 (softcover)
• 0914738771 (softcover)

LCCN

2012023631

OCLC

827780139

Title

Becoming van Gogh / edited by Timothy Standring, Louis van Tilborgh ; with essays by Simon Kelly [and seven others].

Publisher

[Denver, Colorado] : Denver Art Museum, 2012.

Distributor

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-280) and index.

Added Author

Standring, Timothy J., 1950- editor.

Tilborgh, Louis van, editor.

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890. Works. Selections.

Denver Art Museum.

Research Call Number

JQG 13-724