Starry night : Van Gogh at the asylum / Martin Bailey.
- Bailey, Martin, 1947-
- Date:
- 2018
- Books
About this work
Description
Starry Night is a fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy. Despite the challenges of ill health and asylum life, Van Gogh continued to produce a series of masterpieces - cypresses, wheatfields, olive groves and sunsets. He wrote very little about the asylum in letters to his brother Theo, so this book sets out to give an impression of daily life behind the walls of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and looks at Van Gogh through fresh eyes, with newly discovered material.
Publication/Creation
London, England : White Lion Publishing, 2018.
Physical description
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-211) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Two brothers, two lives -- Arrival -- Enclosed garden -- Life inside -- Alienists -- Wheatfield -- The stars -- Beyond the walls -- Olive groves -- Cypresses -- Fellow travellers -- Crises -- Mirror images -- Transforming into colour -- Memories of the North -- Almond blossom -- Isolated -- Postscript I: The asylum after Van Gogh -- Postscript II: Imprisoned in Russia -- On the trail of Van Gogh -- Chronology.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePP.RX.36Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780711239203
- 0711239207