Žudnja za životom
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- Author: Stone Irving
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 45104
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Žudnja za životom
Stone Irving
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Irving Stone: Lust for Life
During his short and torn life, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) managed to sell only one painting... Exactly one hundred years later, Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for 82.5 million dollars at Christie's auction house in New York, becoming the most expensive canvas in the world, and one should not ignore the fact that three more of his canvases are among the 12 most expensive image on the market. These data in themselves would not be important if they did not so grotesquely contradict the life of an artist who was more than anything imbued with suffering and misunderstanding of his surroundings... It is unnecessary to recapitulate all the stages of Vincent's life, which Stone in his biography illuminated with photographic precision, and even poetically convincingly, when such was necessary. The penchant for asceticism, with which the unfortunate painter restrained his temperament, was visible in everything. He knew how to work 18 hours a day, and in the Provençal years he got up before dawn, carrying his equipment and walking kilometers to find the best possible place to paint in the open air. The misfortunes that accompanied him were aggravated by poverty, and his contacts with women usually ended in fiasco... The life and work of this Dutch artist have long since gone beyond the scope of the art historian profession, growing into a myth that has not lost its power even after so many years. (From the afterword by Zdravko Zima)
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- Author: Stone Irving
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Year of publication:2004
- Place of publication:Koprivnica
- Pages:376
- Dimensions:16x24 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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