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Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh had one true teacher: Nature. Nature taught him about light, shadows, shape, and colors. And he had one single appraiser: his brother Theo. Today Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in the world.
4) Van Gogh
Author
Publisher
PRC
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In this stunningly illustrated volume, art historian Frank Milner introduces 60 of Van Gogh's most characteristic works.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Heiligman draws on the letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime to weave a tale of two lives intertwined as Theo supported Vincent's struggles to find his path in life.
8) Van Gogh
Author
Series
Publisher
Oliver Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Traces the brief and troubled life of van Gogh: his birth in a Dutch village, his travels in Belgium and England, his arrival in Impressionist Paris and his discovery of the delights of the south of France, where he died at 37. Shows how, in spite of suffering mental crises and inner turmoil, van Gogh always continued to search for ways of painting that expressed the true essence of his subjects.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"To us, Van Gogh's paintings look utterly unique. His vivid palates and wildly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his--yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now, drawing on Van Gogh's own thoughtful and often poetic comments about the artists he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of his...
10) Vincent van Gogh
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a life of the Dutch painter, who was afflicted with emotional problems and who sold only one painting in his lifetime, but whose work became world famous after his death.
12) False impression
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of an aristocrat's murder on September 10, 2001, for her priceless Van Gogh painting, Anna, a World Trade Center survivor, takes advantage of her presumed dead status and travels throughout the world to avenge the woman's death. It's September 10, 2001, and Lady Victoria Wentworth is sitting in spacious Wentworth Hall considering the sad state of family fortunes when a female intruder slips in, slashes her throat and cuts off her...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This brilliant portrait of Vincent Van Gogh is a shattering journey through the life of a tortured genius who, spurned in his own time, became the single most influential artist of modern history. Van Gogh's letters to his brother make up the narration.
14) Loving Vincent
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.
Publisher
National Gallery of Canada
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career--from 1886 until his death in July 1890--an international team of leading scholars in the field examines Van Gogh's radical approach to the close-up and sets it in the context of contemporary and historical...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how Van Gogh's insomnia, possibly a symptom of mental or physical illness, allowed him to view the night sky while everyone else was asleep and influenced how he saw the world around him.
Publisher
Auryn
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Almond blossoms" is an adventure through the world of Vincent van Gogh. The artist is befriended by young Marguerite Gachet. Though van Gogh has never sold a painting in his life, when Marguerite needs a miracle he is able to create a masterpiece.
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