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Van Gogh's Ear

內容簡介

內容簡介 The best-known and most sensational event in Vincent van Gogh�s life is also the least understood. For more than a century, biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened on a December night in Arles have unearthed more questions than answers. Why would an artist at the height of his powers commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious �Rachel� to whom he presented his macabre gift? Did he use a razor or a knife? Was it just a segment�or did Van Gogh really lop off his entire ear? In Van Gogh�s Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals, for the first time, the true story of this long-misunderstood incident, sweeping away decades of myth and giving us a glimpse of a troubled but brilliant artist at his breaking point. Murphy�s detective work takes her from Europe to the United States and back, from the holdings of major museums to the moldering contents of forgotten archives. She braids together her own thrilling journey of discovery with a narrative of Van Gogh�s life in Arles, the sleepy Proven�al town where he created his finest work, and vividly reconstructs the world in which he moved�the madams and prostitutes, caf� patrons and police inspectors, shepherds and bohemian artists. We encounter Van Gogh�s brother and benefactor Theo, his guest and fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and many local subjects of Van Gogh�s paintings, some of whom Murphy identifies for the first time. Strikingly, Murphy uncovers previously unknown information about �Rachel��and uses it to propose a bold new hypothesis about what was occurring in Van Gogh�s heart and mind as he made a mysterious delivery to her doorstep. As it reopens one of art history�s most famous cold cases, Van Gogh�s Ear becomes a fascinating work of detection. It is also a study of a painter creating his most iconic and revolutionary work, pushing himself ever closer to greatness even as he edged toward madness�and one fateful sweep of the blade that would resonate through the ages.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Bernadette Murphy was born and raised in the U.K. She has lived in the south of France for most of her adult life and worked in many different fields. Van Gogh�s Ear is her first book.

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產品目錄 ■作者簡介Bernadette Murphy在英國出生長大，幾乎整個成年生涯都待在法國南部，做過各種不同領域的工作。一連串的因緣際會，讓她開始調查梵谷在阿爾(Arles)的生活，但並沒有料到這會是一場如此令人興奮的探索之旅。

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