Research Catalog

Title

Van Gogh's cypresses / Susan Alyson Stein ; with contributions by Charlotte Hale, Silvia A. Centeno, Alison Hokanson, and Marina Kliger.

Author

Stein, Susan Alyson

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2023]
• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.
• Hale, Charlotte, 1959-
• Centeno, Silvia A.
• Hokanson, Alison
• Kliger, Marina
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portrait; 26 cm

Summary

This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is the first to focus on the artist's unique treatment of this subject. Challenging prevailing views about the artist's preoccupation with the flamelike trees that played such an important role in the works made in the South of France near the end of his life, Susan Alyson Stein retraces Van Gogh's progressive exploration of the subject from ink on paper to such iconic canvases as Starry Night (1889) and Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889). Drawing on new research, this richly illustrated publication explores the expressive force, symbolic meaning, and stylistic ambition of these pictures, illuminating the backstory of their invention. Excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing, many translated into English for the first time, offer a rich and resonant context for these images. The volume also includes a scientific study of The Met's Cypresses (1889) and Wheat Field with Cypresses that provides fresh insights into the artist's process. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (15.05-27.08.2023).

Subject

• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 > Exhibitions
• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
• Cypress > In art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Van Gogh's Cypresses, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 22, 2023, through August 27, 2023."--Colophon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.

Contents

Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Note to the reader -- Introduction / Susan Alyson Stein -- The roots of his invention : Arles, February 1888-May 1889 / Susan Alyson Stein -- The making of a signature motif : Saint-Rémy, May-September 1889 / Susan Alyson Stein -- Untangling nature : Van Gogh's materials and process / Charlotte Hale and Silvia A. Centeno -- Signing off in style : Saint-Rémy, October 1889-May 1890 / Susan Alyson Stein -- Offshoots : the literary and artistic context / Alison Hokanson ; with the assistance of Marina Kliger -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Exhibition checklist -- Index -- Photography credits

Call Number

JQF 24-318

ISBN

• 9781588397591
• 1588397599

OCLC

1346946773

Author

Stein, Susan Alyson, author, curator.

Title

Van Gogh's cypresses / Susan Alyson Stein ; with contributions by Charlotte Hale, Silvia A. Centeno, Alison Hokanson, and Marina Kliger.

Publisher

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2023]

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.

Added Author

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.

Hale, Charlotte, 1959- contributor.

Centeno, Silvia A., contributor.

Hokanson, Alison, contributor.

Kliger, Marina, contributor.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-318