The pursuit of spiritual wisdom
The pursuit of spiritual wisdom: the thought and art of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Naomi Margolis Maurer
Publisher: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; c1998.
ISBN: 0838637493
LCC: N6847.5
Summary:
"This book explores van Gogh's and Gauguin's concepts of spirituality
in life and art, and the ways in which their ideas and the events of
their personal lives shaped their creation of repertoires of
meaningful symbolic motifs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1985) under title:
The pursuit of spiritual knowledge.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-[198]) and index.
Pt. 1. Van Gogh and Gauguin in the Context of Symbolist Thought --
Pt. 2. "The Existence of God and Eternity:" Van Gogh's Search for
Spiritual Salvation -- Pt. 3. From Here to Eternity: Gauguin's
Journey Towards Nirvana.
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