Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent Van Gogh's Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints - Couverture souple

Alessi, Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925495736 ISBN 13 : 9781925495737

Editeur : Monash University Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

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 Gogh's hope was to become an illustrator of magazines and newspapers. From 1880-85 van Gogh assembled a collection of over 2,000 black-and-white prints, predominately 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 Gogh'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 Gogh's art, throughout his career, and to open up rich new understandings of a life and body of work that continue to intrigue and inspire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Vincent Alessi is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts and Art History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Monash University Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925495736
• ISBN 13: 9781925495737
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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