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Title: |
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde |
| Sub-title: |
Vincent van Gogh's Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints |
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| By (author): |
Vincent Alessi |
| ISBN10-13: |
1925495736 : 9781925495737 |
| Illustrations: |
50 b/w illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - August 2020 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 46 |
| Subjects: |
History of art / art & design styles |
| When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-garde art world. Rather, his aims centred on earning a reasonable wage and living within the middle-class norms of his family. Van Goghâ s hope was to become an illustrator of magazines and newspapers. From 1880 to 1885 van Gogh assembled a collection of more than 2,000 black-and-white prints, predominantly from English publications such as The Graphic and The Illustrated London News. These prints were produced in the thousands to accompany news stories or as stand-alone illustrations to be pinned up in the family home. Vincent Alessi reveals for the first time how van Goghâ s collection acted for him as both inspiration and manual: a guide to the subject matter demanded by leading illustrated newspapers and magazines and a model of artistic style. These popular images are shown to have palpably shaped van Goghâ s art throughout his career, and open up rich new understandings of a life and body of work that continue to intrigue and inspire. |
| Reviews: |
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This thorough study of a decisive factor in Vincent van Gogh's formation as an artist is fundamental to the understanding of his art. -- Sjraar van Heugten, Former head of collections at the Van Gogh Museum
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