{"product_id":"2940157108540","title":"Vincent Van Gogh Madness and Magic 2nd Edition","description":"?Vincent Van Gogh needs no introduction. An iconoclast to the last, an artist who challenged tradition, overturned outmoded customs, a man who relished being a bomb-thrower and expert provocateur, he was without question one of the greatest artists of all time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadness And Magic by American author Philip Dossick contains thirty of Van Gogh's wittiest, most profound works, harvested from a lifetime of his most radically creative years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author's choices range from the renowned and expected, to the obscure and disturbing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reader may find the lean precision of Madness And Magic an astute marriage of art and poetry. Each of the thirty paintings is paired with a short original poem, a format that breathes new life into the stale, over-populated coffee-table book universe of seldom opened volumes.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn a page. Van Gogh's trees are not simply trees. They are strange living creatures bursting with color and touched by solar flare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author wonders, why did Van Gogh visualize them this way? What was it about them that enraptured him so? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did this nature lover become mystically attuned to these leafy petaled creatures? Attuned to libidinous young women? Attuned to scrofulous individuals cursed by old age and infirmity? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman nature is far too complex, and the personality of an artistic genius too enigmatic for a biographer to supply easy explanations. Instead, in Madness And Magic, Dossick has chosen to chart the course Van Gogh's genius took, and speculate, through selection and poetry, why some of the upheavals and catastrophes in his life might have occurred along the lines they did. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout The Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W. He has written for television, including the outstanding drama, Transplant, produced by David Susskind for CBS. His most recent books include Aztecs: Epoch Of Social Revolution, Sex And Dreams, Mark Twain In Seattle, The Naked Citizen: Notes On Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Lurid Tales \u0026amp; Classic Oddities, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Remembering Henry David Thoreau, The Deposition, Vincent Van Gogh: Madness And Magic, Oscar Wilde: Sodomy and Heresy, Abraham Lincoln: 5 Speeches that Changed America, Lenny Bruce: The Myth of Free Speech, The Romantic Poetry of Robert Burns - Soul of Scotland, Jack London: The Maelstrom Collection, Times That try Men's Souls: Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Paine on Slavery and Civil Disobedience, Master and Protégé: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, Ghost Dance Prophets: Wovoka, Lincoln, and Franz Boas, Voces de Libertad, Arrested! United States vs. Susan B. Anthony Regarding a Woman's Right to Vote, The Outline of History, Volumes I and II by H.G. Wells, Discovering Japanese Classical Literature, Gina and Frank - A Brief Conversation With Strangers, and Masculinette and Femininique: The Lyric Poetry of John Keats.","brand":"Editions Artisan Devereaux, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103844155632,"sku":"2940157108540","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157108540_p0.jpg?v=1764091504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157108540","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}