题 目：Van Gogh's Cypresses / 梵高的柏树

作 者：Susan Alyson Stein

出 版：Yale University Press ，2023

装 帧：精装，272页

尺 寸：23.5*25.9 cm

本书是首部研究文森特·梵高对柏树这一“高大而深邃的树木”迷恋之情的著作，柏树是他一些最具标志性画作中的主题。

文森特·梵高（1853-1890）以其标志性的画作将柏树永载史册，这些画作已成为他强烈原创表达力的代名词。这本图文并茂的出版物首次揭示了梵高这一创作灵感的背后故事，从他早期在阿尔勒的基准绘画中对这一主题的初步探索，到他在圣雷米疗养院绘制的《星夜》和《麦田里的柏树》等标志性画布上充分展现其唤起情感潜力的过程。苏珊·艾莉森·斯坦追溯了这位荷兰艺术家对火焰般常绿的柏树的灵感反应，这种反应在他法国南部的逗留期间逐渐在他的作品和艺术思维中占据重要地位。本书还通过一项针对梵高1889年6月大规模绘画活动中的两幅著名作品的技术研究，进一步揭示了梵高的创作过程。书中还收录了十九世纪诗歌、小说和游记中的图像和节选，其中许多是首次翻译成英文，共同展示了柏树在视觉和文学上的传承。

The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous with his fiercely original power of expression. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the backstory of his invention for the first time, from his initial investigations of the motif in benchmark drawings from Arles to his realization of their full evocative potential in such iconic canvases as The Starry Night and Wheat Field with Cypresses, painted at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Susan Alyson Stein retraces the Dutch artist’s inspired response to the flamelike evergreens as they gained ground in his works and artistic thinking over the course of his sojourn in the South of France. The volume provides further insight into Van Gogh’s creative process through a technical study focused on two celebrated works from the artist’s epic painting campaign of June 1889. The visual and literary heritage of the cypresses is featured in a compilation of images and excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing—many translated into English for the first time.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press 

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(May 22–August 27, 2023)