Van Gogh 100

JOSEPH D. MASHECK teaches general and Modern Art History at Hofstra University and coordinates the graduate humanities program. He has served as editor-in-chief of Artforum and is the author of books on art history and architecture.

This volume commemorates the 100th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death. Major van Gogh scholars present essays that reexamine the painter's place in the art world of his time, the phenomenal growth in his reputation, and his influence on later art movements and individual artists. At the time of his death and for some years after, there was a question as to whether van Gogh's approach would gain recognition. Today, he is seen as one of the most popular and recognized of the world's artists, and his impact on 20th-century art is unquestioned. How and why this occurred is a major theme throughout this essay collection.Among the topics examined are iconography; van Gogh's poetry as well as the literature that influenced him and that he, in turn, influenced; psychological and religious aspects of van Gogh's painting and self-imaging; and how van Gogh has been interpreted. A section on his legacy in art concludes this major reassessment of van Gogh's place in art history. An important collection for art scholars and researchers as well as public library patrons.

Commemorates the 100th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh's death by reexamining the painter's place in the art world of his time.

PrefaceReintroducing Vincent Greeting by Sjraar van Heugten"I Shall Grow in the Tempest": Van Gogh 100 Years Later by Bogomila Welsh-OvcharovThe Sense of Sorrow by A. M. HammacherIconographyFrom "Passions" to "Passion": Vision and Verbal Puns in The Night Café by Yvonne KorshakThe Symbolism of van Gogh's Flowers by Hope B. WernessVan Gogh's "Worship of Sorrow" and Charles Dickens' Religion of Hearth and Home by Kitty McChesney AlhadeffVan Gogh, Thomas Nast, and the Social Role of the Artist by Albert BoimeLiteratureVincent as Reader: Reading in the Formation of the Artist by Patricia E. ConnorsVan Gogh and Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Interdisciplinary Exploration by Maude M. J. JenningsTwo Poems from The van Gogh Notebook by Peter CooleyTwo Poems from Gallery Excavations by Robert H. WaughPsychologyExperience and Knowledge in van Gogh's Imaginative Transactions by Enrico Maria DavoliSelf-portrait as Self-image by James RisserThe Role of Copying in van Gogh's Oeuvre and Illness by Orlindo Goueira PereiraVan Gogh's Understanding of Theories of Neurosis, Neurasthenia, and Degeneration in the 1880s by Aaron SheonReligionVincent of Zundert: Pastoral Background by Reverend J. Frits WagenerVan Gogh's Berceuse and the Sanctity of the Secular by Judy SundChristianity versus Nature: A Study of van Gogh's Thematics by Tsukasa KoderaVan Gogh's Spiritual Quest: Toward a Theology of Vulnerability by Clifford Walter EdwardsInterpretationVan Gogh and His Readers: The Case of Antonin Artaud by Johann PillaiVan Gogh, Schapiro, Heidegger, and Derrida by Jeremy Gilbert-RolfeVan Gogh, Heidegger, Schapiro, Derrida: The Truth in Criticism (Notes on Restless Life) by David Joel ShapiroIn the Artist's Boots by Joseph D. MasheckThe Legacy in ArtVan Gogh at Auvers: The Majesty of Nature by Mark Wentworth RoskillVan Gogh's Faktura and Modern Russian Art by Margaret B. Betz"Over-All Space": Comparing van Gogh, Mondrian, and Pollock by Erik SaxonThe Inspiring Presence of the Work and Personality of van Gogh Among Painters of the Twentieth Century by Dore Ashton