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The personality of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)—a 19th-century combination of dropout, rebel, and genius—and the source of his enormous achievement continue to fascinate people as deeply as his vivid, wildly painted canvasses of sunflowers, peasants, and starry nights. In this first and only in-depth study of the relationship between van Gogh's psychological development and his art, Albert J. Lubin, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Stanford University and a practicing psychoanalyst, draws on the tremendous wealth of information available about van Gogh, to explore his personal conflicts in the context of the forces that molded him: familial, historical, cultural, religious, artistic, and literary. Dr. Lubin approaches van Gogh not as a mysterious mix of sick eccentric and martyred artist, but as a complete man who transformed his suffering into a phenomenal body of work. Lubin's daring psychological insights and art criticism allow us to better understand, and more fully appreciate, van Gogh's artistic triumph over his inner torment.
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Ken Greenaway
reviewed Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh on February 11, 2021
Stranger on the Earth
This book is a little dated. There are mentions of letters that eventually changed numbers as more letters were found and added as well as one of the Bedrooms at the time of this book being written that hung in the Louvre that is no longer there.
I for one don’t quite see this as the book I hoped for when I read the description. Although the author shows multiple different possibilities that could have made Vincent the way he was, no matter what the main idea is it always comes with a religious base. In Art History, we only touched that with ‘Oh he was a religious man before he started painting’ and that is it. I had never seen any of his paintings with a religious idea or affiliation/hidden symbols, besides the ones he copied the originals of earlier artist that were religious paintings.
Also, I never saw Vincent with any sort of Homosexual intention or thought. Reading other books about him, I would have never thought that one of his frustrations could have been for his conflicting feelings of possible homosexual intent. He never really came across as that, and with myself understanding the struggles of being apart of the LGBTQ+ Community, I would have never guess he may have been queer. His love and longing to be married and have children just seems way to strong for him...plus he only admired Gauguin as the artist he was, not as the person (Gauguin was often incredibly rude to Vincent and Vincent’s style of art).
I love Van Gogh and his artwork and will always admirer him as one of my favorite artists of all time, and although there are some ideas I downright disagree with put forth by this author, it was still an interesting read.
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