Ван Гог. Миссионер нового искусства

Almost everyone is familiar with the name of the artist Van Gogh, one of the greatest colorists in the history of art. Many admired his paintings in museums, heard of his madness. But few people know what the special importance of Van Gogh for contemporary art is.
Based on the artist’s extensive correspondence, the memoirs of eyewitnesses, the books of numerous researchers of his work, the author proves why Van Gogh, setting an equal sign between serving art and life, became the “banner” of all the rebellious artistic directions of XX, and Now the XXI century. He had the right to say about himself in the context of art: “Painting and everything connected with it ... It requires a person from a person that at present it is like taking part in a campaign, battle, war”.
The book is addressed to a wide range of art lovers