Popular art and the avant-garde : Vincent van Gogh's collection of newspaper and magazine prints / Vincent Alessi.

  • Alessi, Vincent
Date:
[2020]
  • Books

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Vincent van Gogh's collection of newspaper and magazine prints

Description

"When 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 to 1885 van Gogh assembled a collection of over 2,000 black-and-white prints, predominantly 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 open up rich new understandings of a life and body of work that continue to intrigue and inspire."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2020]

Physical description

xv, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-211).

Contents

The rise of the popular print : mirror to a changing society -- Van Gogh in nineteenth-century England : the making of an evangelical mindset -- 'A kind of Bible' : Van Gogh's collection of popular prints -- Van Gogh the draughtsman : 'best-kept secret' -- Making a modus operandi : the influence of black-and-white illustrations on van Gogh the artist.

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    History of Medicine
    ZHS /ALE
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ISBN

  • 9781925495737
  • 1925495736