Van Gogh: poets & lovers

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"An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh's career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings. The years prior to Van Gogh's death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter's brief artistic career. He was working in the South of France and intent on creating new work which would advance his career. Van Gogh set about developing compositions that were informed by the natural world surrounding him, by the poets and lovers he encountered in literature, and by the individual models he was depicting. The process of his imaginative transformations has never been explored, and this will provide the opportunity to present significant new insights into the much-loved painter's life. The catalogue features an incredible range of ambitious canvases and important works on paper. It presents new research on themes including the artist's innovative approach to exhibiting his work and the varied literary sources that inspired his characters and compositions. These topics are rarely written about in relation to this well-known artist and are bound to expand both scholarly and public interpretations of Van Gogh's remarkable oeuvre."-- Provided by publisher.

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Director's foreword -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Art of the future / Cornelia Homburg -- The public park, a garden of one's own / Judy Sund -- The Montmajour drawings series: between observation and imagination / Julien Domercq -- Van Gogh on classic ground / Christopher Riopelle -- Van Gogh's lovers / Judy Sund -- Sunflowers: still lifes in Arles / Julien Domercq -- 'Unity is strength': Van Gogh and the exhibitions of the avant-garde / Marnin Young -- Van Gogh's decoration: sources of inspiration / Cindy Kang -- The appeal of the Alpilles / Renske Cohen Tervaert -- Cultivating his garden: Van Gogh in Saint-Paul de Mausole / Judy Sund -- Poet, lover, bonze, lullaby: symbolic portraits / Renske Cohen Tervaert -- The painter and his poetry / Michael Glover -- Tracing thoughts: Van Gogh's ambitions in Arles and Saint-Rémy / Sterre Overmars.