"My Own Portrait in Writing" : : self-fashioning in the letters of Vincent van Gogh / / Patrick Grant.

• Superior document: Cultural Dialectics
• VerfasserIn: Grant, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural dialectics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 pages) :; digital file(s).

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as litera...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
• 1 The Painterly Writer
• 2 Binaries, Contradictions, and “Arguments on Both Sides”-- 3 Reading Van Gogh';s Letter-Sketches
• 4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
• Conclusion: Envoi.