书名：Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story梵高的耳朵：一个真实的故事

作者：Bernadette Murphy

出版社名称：Vintage

出版时间：2017

语种：英文 

ISBN：9781784702229

包装：平装页数：336 （以实物为准）

被误解几乎是每一位超前于时代的天才的宿命。与如今大众文化偶像的地位不同，在梵高所生活的时代，真正理解他、尊敬他的人寥寥无几。沉默和孤独是他的底色。在阿尔勒的一年，是他人生中极为高产的一段时期，可同样是在这一年，他的灵魂备受折磨，先是割去耳朵，而后生命走向终结。Van Gogh's Ear《梵高的耳朵》以长达7年的深度调查，逐渐还原出梵高在阿尔勒所生活环境的真实图景。一位特立独行的艺术家，如何与他所处的社会碰撞和连结，又如何为身边人所看待？《梵高的耳朵》以一个普通人的视角，展现这位传奇艺术家丰富而真实的心灵世界。

1. 荷兰梵高博物馆官方认证，BBC制作同名纪录片：荷兰梵高博物馆作为国际上极有威望的梵高研究中心，肯定了作者的研究成果，并将作者找到的关键证据举办个展展览。BBC于2016年播出同名纪录片The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear； 2. 作者调查过程历时7年，深入阿尔勒一百余次，建立起梵高生活当时的阿尔勒逾15000人的居民档案，全书664条注释注明资料来源，句句有出处。根据资料中的蛛丝马迹逐渐拼凑出事件真相，还原出一个被造神运动遮蔽的、真实的梵高； 3. 作者的调查结果打破了大众对梵高的固有印象，腾讯文化、搜狐历史、华夏收藏、《中国商报》、界面等国内媒体纷纷报道本书； 4. 如果以推理小说的视角去看“梵高的耳朵”事件，真相将会如何？将“梵高割耳”事件当作一件疑案，不断搜集被遗漏的关键线索，有某种抽丝剥茧、逐步发现真相的阅读快感：是什么促使梵高割下了耳朵？为何高更曾因“涉嫌谋杀梵高”而被逮捕？为何梵高的邻居会发起请愿送他去精神病院？ Review "This book has the pace of a detective novel, sending fresh blood pulsing through an old tale as Murphy recreates the heartbreaking drama of Van Gogh’s loosening grip on reality." (Daily Mail) "Murphy’s revelations are fascinating and add intriguing details to the great crisis of Van Gogh’s life."(Michael Prodger The Times) "Murphy’s book rescues the real Van Gogh from the lazy clichés of tea towel memorabilia by painting an electric, nuanced portrait of a man who achieved artistic brilliance despite his mental health issues and not because of them. In doing so, she allows for a version of his history in which her subject’s passion for life, art and humanity blooms like the sunflowers he painted." (Daily Mail) "She knows Provence with an intimacy that’s rare in the ear genre. Her descriptions of the people, their landscape, their customs are unusually detailed… Her second stand-out quality is a doggedness that goes beyond the usual art-historical drives. Relentlessly she wrestles with the book’s central mystery." (Waldemar Januszczak Sunday Times) "No one before has built up such a detailed picture of the people who surrounded the great artist."(Martin Gayford Daily Telegraph)

在阿尔勒的那个深夜里，梵高割掉耳朵的那一天，究竟发生了什么？这是贝尔纳黛特·墨菲一直所困惑的问题。被梵高赠与耳朵的神秘女子究竟是谁，梵高何以对她如此痴情？是什么事件，促成了这位伟大艺术家的怪异举动？梵高真的死于自杀吗？在历经几代的造神运动之后，墨菲致力于挖掘出已成定论的历史背后的真相。Van Gogh's Ear《梵高的耳朵》以深度的田野调查和采访，大量事发当时的一手资料，试图还原出梵高所生活时代的阿尔勒的真实图景，还原出一个不同于艺术史中的，真实的梵高。

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night? In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals the truth. She takes us on an extraordinary journey from major museums to forgotten archives, vividly reconstructing Van Gogh's world. We meet police inspectors and café patrons, prostitutes and madams, his beloved brother Theo and fellow painter Paul Gauguin. Why did Van Gogh commit such a brutal act? Who was the mysterious 'Rachel' to whom he presented his macabre gift? Did he really remove his entire ear? Murphy answers these important questions with her groundbreaking discoveries, offering a stunning portrait of an artist edging towards madness in his pursuit of excellence.

贝尔纳黛特·墨菲出生于英国，曾在伦敦学习艺术史。成年后，她在法国南部生活了很长一段时间，从事过多种行业。由于家乡距因梵高而名声大噪的阿尔勒只有50英里，从小她就经常造访此地，听导游讲过无数次梵高的传奇故事。但她发现，这些故事中很多细节经不起推敲，甚至纯属捏造。机缘巧合之下，她决心再次前往阿尔勒展开调查。在七年间，她先后一百多次前往阿尔，以法证调查般的严谨、细致，寻找事件发生时代的一手资料，寻访事件当事人的后代，逐渐拼凑出梵高及其所生活环境的真实图景，以及“梵高割耳”事件背后的真相，从而带我们走进这位伟大艺术家真实的心灵世界。

Bernadette Murphy was born and brought up in the UK. She has lived in the south of France for most of her adult life and worked in many different fields. A series of chance events led her to start investigating the life of Van Gogh in Arles, but little did she know at the time quite what an exciting adventure it would turn out to be. Van Gogh’s Ear is her first book.

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