Lust for Life by Suggested Readings

Selection of novels by Irving Stone

The agony and the ecstasy: a novel of . Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1961. [E11 M623St]

The Passions of the Mind: A Novel of . Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1971.

The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin . New York: Doubleday, 1980.

Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of . Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1985.

Van Gogh’s Life

Tralbaut, Mark Edo. : a pictorial biography. New York: Viking Press, 1959. [E14 G613TR]

Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith. Van Gogh: the life . New York: Random House, 2011. [E14 G613NAI]

Meier-Graefe, Julius. : a biographical study . London & Boston: The Medici Society Ltd., 1926. [Z E14 G613M]

Bailey, Martin. Young Vincent: the story of van Gogh's years in England . London: W.H. Allen; Secaucus, N.J.: Distributed in the USA by Carol Pub., c1990. [E14 G613B]

Wallace, Carol. Leaving Van Gogh: a novel . New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011. Imagines the career of Vincent Van Gogh from the perspective of his friend and psychiatrist Dr. Gachet, who throughout the course of their relationship watches the tortured artist deteriorate from an optimistic genius to a suicide victim. [E14 G613WALL]

Dumas, Ann. The real Van Gogh: the artist and his letters . London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2010. [Z E14 G613DU]

Van Gogh’s Biography http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=12257&lang=en§ion=sectie_vincent

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm

Van Gogh’s Art Sund, Judy. Van Gogh . London; New York: Phaidon, 2002. [E14 G613SUN]

Zurcher, Bernard. Vincent Van Gogh: art, life, and letters . New York: Rizzoli, c1985. [Z E14 G613Zu]

Walther, Ingo F and Rainer Metzger. Vincent van Gogh: the complete paintings. Ko ʗln: Benedikt Taschen, c1993. [IMP G206]

Hulsker, Jan. The complete Van Gogh : paintings, drawings, sketches . New York : H.N. Abrams, 1980, c1977. [E14 G613Hu] Oversized

Welsh, Bogomila. Van Gogh: The Vicarage at Nuenen. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1984. [VF Folder 3]

Homburg, Cornelia. Van Gogh: up close . New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2012. "This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view.” [E14 G613HOM]

Stolwijk, Chris . Vincent’s Choice: the Musee imaginaire of Van Gogh. Amsterdam: ; Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 2003. [EC A528 R572V 2003]

Van Gogh’s Circle

Goldin, Marco. Van Gogh and Gauguin's journey: variations on a theme . Treviso: Linea d'ombra, c2011. [EC G335 P155DU 2011]

Druick, Douglas W. and Peter Kort Zegers. Van Gogh and Gauguin: the studio of the south . New York; London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. [EC C533 A784 2001]

First loan exhibition, New York, November, 1929: Cézanne , Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh New York: distributed by the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, printed at the Condé Nast Press, Conn., 1929. [EC N53Y61 M986M 1929]

Videos

In a brilliant light: van Gogh in Arle s. MMA Home Video, 1984. A film documentary about the fifteen-month period in 1888-1889 during which Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in in the South of France. [VIDEO 315.2]

Lust for life [Burbank, Calif.]: Warner Home Video, [2006] gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind. [VIDEO 710]

Creativity & Illness

Andreason, Nancy. “Secrets of the Creative Brain” The Atlantic. June 25, 2014 http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/06/secrets-of-the-creative-brain/372299/

Blumer, Dietrich. “The Illness of Vincent van Gogh” American Journal of Psychiatry . 2002 (159) 519-526. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=175449

Sandblom, Philip. Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music. Philadelphia, PA: George F. Stickley Company, 1982.