Research Catalog

Title

Van Gogh 100 / edited by Joseph D. Masheck ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Masheck, Joseph.
• Hofstra University.

Description

xvi, 402 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions to the study of art and architecture, 1058-9120 ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Contributions to the study of art and architecture ; no. 4.

Alternative Title

Van Gogh one hundred

Subject

Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses

Note

• Papers from a conference held at Hofstra University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Greeting / Sjraar van Heugten -- 1. "I Shall Grow in the Tempest": Van Gogh 100 Years Later / Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov -- 2. The Sense of Sorrow / A. M. Hammacher -- 3. From "Passions" to "Passion": Visual and Verbal Puns in The Night Cafe / Yvonne Korshak -- 4. The Symbolism of van Gogh's Flowers / Hope B. Werness -- 5. Van Gogh's "Worship of Sorrow" and Charles Dickens' Religion of Hearth and Home / Kitty McChesney Alhadeff -- 6. Van Gogh, Thomas Nast and the Social Role of the Artist / Albert Boime -- 7. Vincent as Reader: Reading in the Formation of the Artist / Patricia E. Connors -- 8. Van Gogh and Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Interdisciplinary Exploration / Maude M. J. Jennings -- 9. Two Poems from The van Gogh Notebook (1987) / Peter Cooley -- 10. Two Poems from Gallery Excavations / Robert H. Waugh -- 11. Experience and Knowledge in van Gogh's Imaginative Transactions / Enrico Maria Davoli -- 12. Self-Portrait as Self-Image / James Risser --
• 13. The Role of Copying in van Gogh's Oeuvre and Illness / Orlindo Gouveia Pereira -- 14. Van Gogh's Understanding of Theories of Neurosis, Neurasthenia and Degeneration in the 1880s / Aaron Sheon -- 15. Vincent of Zundert: Pastoral Background / J. Frits Wagener -- 16. Van Gogh's Berceuse and the Sanctity of the Secular / Judy Sund -- 17. Christianity Versus Nature: A Study of van Gogh's Thematics / Tsukasa Kodera -- 18. Van Gogh's Spiritual Quest: Toward a Theology of Vulnerability / Clifford Walter Edwards -- 19. Van Gogh and His Readers: The Case of Antonin Artaud / Johann Pillai -- 20. Van Gogh, Schapiro, Heidegger and Derrida / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- 21. Van Gogh, Heidegger, Schapiro, Derrida: The Truth in Criticism (Notes on Restless Life) / David Joel Shapiro -- 22. In the Artist's Boots / Joseph D. Masheck -- 23. Van Gogh at Auvers: The Majesty of Nature / Mark Wentworth Roskill -- 24. Van Gogh's Faktura and Modern Russian Art / Margaret B. Betz --
• 25. "Overall Space": Comparing van Gogh, Mondrian and Pollock / Erik Saxon -- 26. The Inspiring Presence of the Work and Personality of van Gogh among Painters of the Twentieth Century / Dore Ashton.

ISBN

0313294917 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

94029206

OCLC

ocm30814807

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries