Vincent Everywhere
Van Gogh's (Inter)National Identities
Published on 19. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-90-8964-198-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a hybrid collection of authors from various disciplines - literature, art history, history, and media, cultural and literary studies - who examine the life and work of Vincent van Gogh and its multiple meanings within a broad range of (inter)national contexts. Vincent Everywhere offers the reader a journey through time, beginning in our own day with the meaning of Vincent van Gogh in the Netherlands of the twenty-first century, to the ways in which Van Gogh was embraced by Hollywood (and how European cinema resisted this appropriation), to the Franco-German struggle regarding the discursive 'site' of Van Gogh's shoes, to the Japanese love affair with Van Gogh, to the problems the French have with the place of Van Gogh's letters in their literary canon. The book ends with Van Gogh in his own time, the nineteenth century, examining his perception of his own foreignness as an immigrant in England, Belgium and France, and the early conflicts regarding the location (both literal and figurative) of his artistic legacy.
Reviews / Votes
'Vincent van Gogh - artist, letter writer, reader, traveller - saw life through many different prisms. Viewing Vincent from very varied dimensions, these texts illuminate the rich diversity of his eye and his intellect, and how within a century he has achieved universality as a fiction and a brand.' Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh. - 'The authors are to be congratulated for demonstrating just how malleable the myths of art and artists can be, how we always read into the bare facts of an artist's life to recreate him or her according to the imperatives of the moment. For our era of globalization, we now have a new Vincent, an artist who transcends national borders and, simply, exists everywhere.' Professor Patricia Mainardi[-]Doctoral Program in Art History[-]Graduate Center, City University of New YorkMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Illustrations
24 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-198-4 (9789089641984)
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"http://www.margrietschavemaker.nl/biography/" target="_blank">Margriet Schavemaker studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently working as curator and head of research and publications at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Schavemaker writes about contemporary art and theory, organizes discursive events (such as the lecture series 'Right about Now: Art and Theory since the 1990s' (2006-2007), 'Now is the Time: Art and Theory in the 21st Century' (2008-2009)). She also curates exhibitions and is invested in exploring the significance of media technology for the cultural field.|Rachel Esner is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is the author of a number of articles on the artist's studio and image of the artist in the nineteenth century, as well as co-editor of Vincent Everywhere. Van Gogh's (Inter)National Identities (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2010).