Vincent's Arles
As It Is and as It Was
Seiten
2023
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82219-8 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82219-8 (ISBN)
A vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rhône, the town of Arles in the south of France had been a place of significance long before the painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in February of 1888. Aware of Arles’s history as a haven for poets, van Gogh spent an intense fifteen months there, scouring the city’s streets and surroundings in search of subjects to paint when he wasn’t thinking about other places or lamenting his woeful circumstances.
In Vincent’s Arles, Linda Seidel serves as a guide to the mysterious and culturally rich town of Arles, taking us to the places immortalized by van Gogh and cherished by innumerable visitors and pilgrims. Drawing on her extensive expertise on the region and the medieval world, Seidel presents Arles then and now as seen by a walker, visiting sites old and new. Roman, Romanesque, and contemporary structures come alive with the help of the letters the artist wrote while in Arles. The result is the perfect blend of history, art, and travel, a chance to visit a lost past and its lingering, often beautiful, traces in the present.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rhône, the town of Arles in the south of France had been a place of significance long before the painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in February of 1888. Aware of Arles’s history as a haven for poets, van Gogh spent an intense fifteen months there, scouring the city’s streets and surroundings in search of subjects to paint when he wasn’t thinking about other places or lamenting his woeful circumstances.
In Vincent’s Arles, Linda Seidel serves as a guide to the mysterious and culturally rich town of Arles, taking us to the places immortalized by van Gogh and cherished by innumerable visitors and pilgrims. Drawing on her extensive expertise on the region and the medieval world, Seidel presents Arles then and now as seen by a walker, visiting sites old and new. Roman, Romanesque, and contemporary structures come alive with the help of the letters the artist wrote while in Arles. The result is the perfect blend of history, art, and travel, a chance to visit a lost past and its lingering, often beautiful, traces in the present.
Linda Seidel is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books, including Legend in Limestone, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, and Songs of Glory.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Poets of the Place
The Art of Colors and the Art of Words
The Road to Remembrance
“A Little Rome of Gaul”
The Portal and Its Past
Seeing Stories
Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Pilgrimage Facts and Fictions
Journey’s End
Afterwords
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 color plates, 41 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 367 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Reiseführer ► Europa ► Frankreich | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82219-2 / 0226822192 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82219-8 / 9780226822198 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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