Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow

Author：Natascha Veldhorst，Diane Webb

Hardcover: 184 pages

Publisher: Yale University Press; Translation edition (1 May 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780300228335

ISBN-13: 978-0300228335

ASIN: 0300228333

Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 2 x 23.4 cm

书籍简介

梵高是后印象主义（post-impressionism）的先驱，是继伦勃朗之后荷兰伟大的具有世界性影响的画家。他的画风深深地影响了二十世纪绘画艺术，尤其是野兽派与表现主义。”

这本引人入胜的书初次深入调查了音乐和声音在梵高一生中所扮演的重要角色。从赞美诗到理查德·瓦格纳的歌剧，再到简单的鸟鸣，音乐对梵高来说是艺术表现的形式。他相信，通过模仿音乐绘画可以表达深刻的真理，并给观众带来持久的情感影响。

"Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed hearts!"-Vincent van Gogh This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) life. 

From psalms and hymns to the operas of Richard Wagner to simple birdsong, music represented to Van Gogh the ultimate form of artistic expression. And he believed that by emulating music painting could articulate deep truths and impart a lasting emotional impact on its viewers. 

In Van Gogh and Music Natascha Veldhorst provides close readings of the many allusions to music in the artist's prolific correspondence and examines the period's artistic theory to offer a rich picture of the status of music in late 19th-century culture. 

Veldhorst shows the extent to which Van Gogh not only admired the ability of music to inspire emotion, but how he incorporated musical subject matter and techniques into his work, with illustrations of celebrated paintings such as Sunflowers in a Vase, which he described as "a symphony in blue and yellow." 

An expansive inquiry into the significance of sound and music for the artist, including the formative influence of his song-filled upbringing, Van Gogh and Music is full of fascinating new insights into the work of one of history's most venerated artists.

作者简介

Natascha Veldhorst is lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen.