Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits

by Lauren Soth, Judy Sund, Roland Dorn, et al.

Book Overview

A month before his suicide in 1890, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister, "What impassions me most -- much, much more than all the rest of my metier -- is the portrait, the modern portrait." In the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895581523
• ISBN13: 9780895581525
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Portraiture: Vincent van Gogh's great love

From 2000-2001 this exhibition, devoted specifically to Van Gogh's portraits and self-portraits, will travel to Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia. This book is well written and provides graphics of superb quality. My only misgiving comes from the fact that seven different writers contributed to the commentary of the book which makes the flow of the text somewhat disjointed. While very well researched, other exhibition catalogues (those by Ronald Pickvance, for example) take a work-by work, single author approach and, as a result, the commentary is more clear and concise. Still, it's a minor criticism of an excellent book.