Title:
Starry night : Van Gogh at the asylum
Author:
Bailey, Martin, 1947- author.
ISBN:
9780711239203
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Physical Description:
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
Contents:
Prologue: Two brothers, two lives -- Arrival -- Enclosed garden -- Life inside -- Alienists -- Wheatfield -- The stars -- Beyond the walls -- Olive groves -- Cypresses -- Fellow travellers -- Crises -- Mirror images -- Transforming into colour -- Memories of the North -- Almond blossom -- Isolated -- Postscript I: The asylum after Van Gogh -- Postscript II: Imprisoned in Russia -- On the trail of Van Gogh -- Chronology.
Abstract:
Starry Night is a fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy. Despite the challenges of ill health and asylum life, Van Gogh continued to produce a series of masterpieces - cypresses, wheatfields, olive groves and sunsets. He wrote very little about the asylum in letters to his brother Theo, so this book sets out to give an impression of daily life behind the walls of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and looks at Van Gogh through fresh eyes, with newly discovered material.
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