Summary: Everybody has heard about when Vincent van Gogh looked into a mirror and cut into his own ear. Bernadette Murphy, an independent researcher, has uncovered definitive evidence which reveals exactly what happened that night, and how it ultimately shaped van Gogh's remarkable art. Murphy's detective work finally provides answers to the mystery that has divided art historians for decades.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEC

Bakker, Nienke

Summary: The mental state of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) has been a perennial source of discussion and conjecture since his death by suicide. Was he mentally ill or a genius? What was the precise nature of Van Gogh's illness? Did it influence his work? This intriguing publication examines how Van Gogh's mental condition revealed itself in 1888 and how he struggled with it throughout his life. Van...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercatorfonds 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT BAK

Gogh, Vincent van

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H.L. Levin Associates 1986

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 VAN

Summary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUS

Gogh, Vincent van

Summary: "A New York Graphic Society book."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 VAN

Gogh, Vincent van

Summary: Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.9492 VAN

Summary: The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm Entertainment Corp. 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOV

Summary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VIN

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute of Chicago 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 VAN

Bassil, Andrea.

Summary: Vincent van Gogh's artistic career only lasted from about 1880 to 1890. During that time, he produced over eight hundred paintings and a huge collection of drawings. Virtually self-taught, van Gogh developed his own individual style, which continues to inspire many today. Few artists of his time regarded him as a great painter, but during the twentieth century, decades after his death, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub./World Almanac Library 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.492 VAN

Fossi, Gloria

Summary: "Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned artist's most famous paintings in this beautiful art bookand travelogue, illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white and full-color images throughout"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.9492 FOS

Naifeh, Steven W.

Summary: Draws on newly available primary sources to present an in-depth, accessible profile that offers revisionist assessments of the influential artist's turbulent life and genius works.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT NAIFEH

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Describes how Van Gogh's insomnia, possibly a symptom of mental or phyical illness, allowed him to view the night sky while everyone else was asleep and influenced how he saw the world around him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROS

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Greenberg, Jan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT GRE

Moore, Christopher

Summary: This novel casts Moore's view askance on a familiar subject and twists it into something wholly original. Famed painter Vincent van Gogh lies dead, an apparent suicide victim. Two of his painterly colleagues are not convinced that the artist truly offed himself, though, so they embark on a quest to find the truth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC Mor

Dafoe, Willem

Summary: A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AT

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AT

Merberg, Julie.

Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist Vincent Van Gogh, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2002

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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MER

Summary: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIM

Hanson, Lawrence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN GOGH, VINCENT HAN

Bareau, Juliet Wilson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 WIL