Van Gogh : up close / Cornelia Homburg

Nature So Close / Cornelia Homburg -- Poetic Nature: A Reading of Van Gogh's Letters / Anabelle Kienle -- Van Gogh and Close-up Techniques in 19th century French Painting / Jennifer A. Thompson -- Vincent and the North: Five Case Studies Up Close / Joseph J. Rishel -- Matière trè Matière / Richard Shiff -- Van Gogh and Photography: Notes on the Artist's Visual Memory / Ulrich Pohlmann -- Still Life / Anabelle Kienle -- Sous Bois / Jennifer A. Thompson -- Blades of Grass / Noelle C. Paulson -- Near and Far: The Close-up and the Horizon Line / Noelle C. Paulson -- Tree Trunks / Cornelia Homburg -- Anatomy of the Close-up: Van Gogh Through the Looking Glass / Rakhee Balaram.

This illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career - from 1886 until his death in July 1890 - an international team of leading scholars in the field examines Van Gogh's radical approach to the close-up and sets it in the context of contemporary and historical references, such as his hitherto unrecognized use of photography and his fascination with the Old Masters and with Japanese art and culture.

English