Volume 48, Number 10 · June 21, 2001
Spirits on Canvas
By Robert L. Herbert
Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin
Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and H. Travers Newton Jr.
Cambridge University Press, 286 pp., $75.00
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art
Debora Silverman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 494 pp., $60.00
The turbulent two months that Gauguin and van Gogh spent together in Arles in 1888 have been described in movies and popular novels as well as by art historians. They were, in many accounts, peintres maudits, quintessential Romantic artists who were mocked and misunderstood by conventional society in their own time and only later could be seen as tragic heroes of modern art.
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