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100 1 $aHeinich, Nathalie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88632741
240 10 $aGloire de Van Gogh.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95053416
245 14 $aThe glory of Van Gogh :$ban anthropology of admiration /$cNathalie Heinich ; translated by Paul Leduc Browne.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiv, 218 pages ;$c25 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-212) and index.
505 20 $g1.$tFrom Silence to Hermeneutics: The Posthumous Making of van Gogh's Oeuvre --$g2.$tThe Golden Legend: From Biography to Hagiography --$g3.$tVan Gogh versus Vincent: The Antinomies of Heroism --$g4.$tMadness and Sacrifice: The Ambivalence of Singularity --$g5.$tMoney As a Medium of Atonement: Purchasing and Redeeming --$g6.$tThe Gaze As a Medium of Atonement: Visiting van Gogh's Works --$g7.$tPresence As a Medium of Atonement: The Procession to van Gogh's Body --$tConclusion: The van Gogh Effect --$tApp. A. Van Gogh and Art Criticism in France, 1888-1901.
520 $aThe image of the great artist as a suffering visionary is a recent invention, observes sociologist Nathalie Heinich - an invention rooted in the "canonization" of Vincent van Gogh as a cultural hero for the twentieth century. Heinich explores how and why the impoverished and mentally tormented van Gogh came to be glorified shortly after his suicide at the age of 37. Did the secular art world need a rebel-saint of its own?
520 8 $aIn considering this possibility, the author explores the history of efforts to celebrate van Gogh, whether in biographies or on T-shirts, showing how the details of his life have been constructed according to the pattern of a Christian saint's rise to recognition. These biographical details circulated first as anecdotes, then as historical truths, and finally became legendary motifs defining individual greatness.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aHeinich organizes her book around the stages that characterize the life of a saint - deviation, renewal, reconciliation, and pilgrimage, the latter culminating in visits to van Gogh's burial site and the competition to buy his paintings or "relics." Heinich explores the economics of the art market and the themes that make up the van Gogh myth, such as the personalization of artistic grandeur, the celebration of the interiority of the creator, and the glorification of abnormality.
520 8 $aBy examining the mythology that helps drive artistic investment, she forces us to reconsider the nature of admiration and particularly the notion that obscurity during an artist's lifetime is a guarantee of true genius.
600 10 $aGogh, Vincent van,$d1853-1890$xAppreciation.
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