Starry Night - Van Gogh at the Asylum

London, England, United Kingdom

List of contents

A Note to the Reader
Preface
Prologue: Two Brothers, Two Lives
1. Arrival
2. Enclosed Garden
3. Life Inside
4. Alienists
5. Wheatfield
6. The Stars
7. Beyond the Walls
8. Olive Groves
9. Cypresses
10. Fellow Travellers
11. Crises
12. Mirror Images
13. Transforming into Colour
14. Memories of the North
15. Almond Blossom
16. Isolated
Postscript I: The Asylum after Van Gogh
Postscript II: Imprisoned in Russia
On the Trail of Van Gogh
Chronology
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements
 

About the author

MARTIN BAILEY is a leading specialist on Van Gogh and an arts journalist. He is a London-based correspondent for The Art Newspaper. Bailey has curated several exhibitions on Van Gogh including one at Tate Britain in 2019. His books include The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece, Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence, Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum and Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame​.

Summary

A fully illustrated account of Van Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Bailey, MARTIN BAILEY
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2022
• EAN: 9780711277311
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-7731-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 192 mm x 245 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / European, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Impressionism, Biography: arts and entertainment, Post-Impressionism