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Vincent van Gogh
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh.
Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.
Van Gogh’s road to be becoming a painter took a circuitous, often troublesome path. In his twenties, van Gogh served as a lay minister in a Belgian mining district. He practiced Christian virtues with such outward zeal that he found himself ostracized from society, which prompted him to set off for Brussels to study art. His religious zeal, his belief in the unimpeachable nature of man and his struggle, and his many tumultuous inner-turmoil’s all resonate through his extraordinary body of paintings.
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- Fuzzie
- 22-07-22
lovely
There's varying accounts of the smaller details of Vincent's life out there, this book has a lovely soft approach that's not too harrowing, while still recognising the tragic torment. I really enjoyed it, the narrator was great though I can't shake that a male narrator might have been better suited and possibly better conveyed the more specifically masculine elements that he struggled with in life. I feel it would have given more acutely hitting reactions in absorbing the story. For the most part though, she was terrific and matched the tone of this book.
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- Frank 9
- 05-03-23
Vivid, unconventional biography
The author, translator & reader together produce the vivid impression that we’re witnessing, close-up, the events of this turbulent, disturbing but, in a strange way, triumphant life.
A lot of the inner life is necessarily imagined, but with such a great sensitivity and attentiveness to what is actually known that, somewhat to my surprise, it didn’t feel at all presumptuous.
The author was an art critic and his reading of the paintings is fascinating. The reader threw herself into a text that was anything but a straightforward read and I thought her interpretation matched the curious combination of daring & sensitivity in the text itself.
Even the translator’s forward was compelling!
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- S. Levin
- 05-11-22
Beautiful and moving book sensitively read
Wanda McCadden is brilliant in every book she reads. A beautiful book read with great sensitivity
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- Anonymous User
- 28-07-22
Loved it…
Insightful and intriguing, lovely to be read the story, the narrators voice is eloquent and flows very well.
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- hellojoanie
- 23-07-22
I gave up on this book 4 hours in.
I really was looking forward to this book. The writing is good but I found the narration dull and uninteresting.
Having seen the Van Gogh Alive exhibition I was interested in finding out more about the man. I wanted to like it but I just didn't. Maybe you will have better luck with it.
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- diana lowe
- 14-05-22
Loved it!
I loved it because I learned a lot more about Vincent van Gogh's life. The narrator really brought the story to life. I would recommend this for anyone who loves Vincent van Gogh.
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