Month: September 2020
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Reagan Upshaw-Vincent Van Gogh’s image is cemented in our cultural memory. His letters complicate the view.
From “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” with Charlton Heston as Michelangelo, to “Pollock,” starring Ed Harris, Hollywood films on the lives of tortured artists have been catnip to the general public, and no artist has gained a larger share of attention than Vincent van Gogh. Kirk Douglas, in 1956’s “Lust for Life,” cemented the prevailing image of the Dutch artist: a tortured genius, helpless in the grip of a vision that no one else could … Reagan Upshaw-Vincent Van Gogh’s image is cemented in our cultural memory. His letters complicate the view.Read more
