Vincent Van Gogh: Matters of Identity

The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph--once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh--leads to a novelesque story of revised art history

About the author

Yves Vasseur is a writer based in Belgium and was general commissioner of Mons Cultural Capital of Europe 2015. Sjraar van Heugten is former head of collections at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and an independent art historian. Marije Vellekoop is head of collections, research, and presentation at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Summary

The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph—once thought to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh—leads to a novelesque story of revised art history

Product details

• Authors: Yves Vasseur, Vasseur Yves
• Assisted by: Sjraar van Heugten (Introduction), Vellekoop Marije (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780300257687
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25768-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Biography: general, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Modernism, Individual photographers, Individual artists, art monographs, Individual architects and architectural firms, The arts: general topics