Ван Гог

Vincent Billle Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived a very short life, but his creative life was even shorter - only the last ten years were dedicated to painting. The hungry, almost beggarly existence, full of loneliness and contempt of others, titanic work and self -Second search for a calling, in the 20th century turned into world interest and recognition. During his life, Van Gogh sold only one picture - for only 400 francs, and almost 100 years later at a auction in New York one of his paintings was purchased for almost $ 100 million. The biography of the artist, written by the French philosopher and writer, is based on correspondence with the brother of Theo, as well as on the memoirs and evidence of contemporaries, the book tells in detail about the mental illness of Van Gogh - the author, avoiding an unambiguous interpretation of this issue, is relied on the diagnoses of the doctors who treated the artist, As well as on the hypotheses of modern psychiatrists.
2nd edition, stereotypical