Vincent van Gogh: the complete paintings

Contents

Foreword: Deserted -- The Making of an Artist 1853-1883 -- The Family 1853-1875 -- Van Gogh's Other Art: The Letters -- The Religious Maniac 1875-1880 -- "No Beginning but in God": Van Gogh and Religion -- First Steps as an Artist 1880-1881 -- Van Gogh's Early Models -- Family Life: The Hague 1882-1883 -- Art and Responsibility: Commitments for the Future -- No Soul, No Self: Drente 1883 -- The Years in Nuenen 1883-1885 -- An Artist Pure and Simple: The First Year -- Progress: The Weavers Series -- "With all my strength": Winter 1884-1885 -- Painting as Manifesto: The Potato Easter -- Understanding and Suspicion: Summer and Autum 1885 -- Colour and the Finished Work: Evolving a Theory of Art -- City Life 1885-1888 -- The Antwerp Interlude: Winter 1885-1886 -- A Dutchman in Paris 1886-1888 -- Through the Window 1886 -- Isms, Isms, Isms: The 1887 Watershed -- The far East on his Doorstep: Van Gogh and Japonism -- Foreword: The Unity of Art and Life -- Painting and Utopia: Arles, February 1888 to May 1889 -- Arles: The Heart of Japan -- Personal Impressionism: Orchards in Blossom -- Under a Southern Sun: May to August 1888 -- Working without Painting: Van Gogh's Drawings -- Enchantment and Affliction: The Night Paintings of September 1888 -- The Dream of an Artists' Community: September and October 1888 -- Aesthetic Subtlety: Van Gogh and Symbolism -- Genius and Error: Gauguin in Arles: October to December 1888 -- Art and Madness -- The Supportive Power of Pictures: January to May 1889 -- "Almost a Cry of Fear": Saint-Remy, May 1889 to May 1890 -- The Monastic Life -- Olives, Cypresses and Hills: Van Gogh's Compacted Landscape -- The Portraits -- Space and Colour: Metaphors of Paradox -- Exhibitions and Criticism: Van Gogh's First Successes -- Selfhood and Otherness: Homage to the Masters -- Ways of Escape: The Final Months in Saint-Remy -- Reverence and Awe: Van Gogh and Nature -- The End: Auvers-sur-Oise, May to July 1890 -- On Doctor Gachet's Territory -- Frieze Art: Van Gogh's 'Art nouveau' -- "I wish it were all over now": Suicide -- A Revolution in Art: Modernism -- Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890: A Chronology.