The Yellow House - Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

Informationen zum Autor Martin Gayford has been art critic for the Spectator and the Sunday Times , and Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney ; Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud ; Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter ; The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles ; The Penguin Book of Art Writing , of which he was the co-editor; and contributions to many catalogues. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. Klappentext Martin Gayford has been Art Critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph . He is currently Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues for exhibitions at Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Courtauld Galleries, the Mus¿d¿Art Moderne, Paris. Martin Gayford lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. Zusammenfassung An account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles. It is an exploration of a fragile friendship, art, madness, genius behind a shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Gayford, Gayford Martin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780141016733
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101673-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Arles, ART / Individual Artists / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, c 1880 to c 1889