What do we mean by ‘love’ and ‘lust’? He defines lust as a state of overwhelming sexual and physical attraction to another person. b : enthusiasm, eagerness admired his lust for life. 2a : an intense longing : craving a lust to succeed. Two American writers have dug deep, providing a highly detailed and stimulating account of the artist’s entire life (with 28,000 footnotes available online).ġ : usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness He was motivated more by lust than by love. “Another doorstopper, at 953 pages, it is the definitive biography. The novel was adapted into a 1956 film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one.Van Gogh: The Life (2011) by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. The book is divided into nine smaller "books", titled based on the places Van Gogh lived: London (Prologue), the Borinage, Etten, The Hague, Paris, Arles, St. People close to Van Gogh's life, like Paul Gauguin, are also characters in the novel. Stone wanted to explain Van Gogh's difficult life and how he began, flourished, and died as a painter. including The Potato Eaters and Sunflowers. The narrative of Lust for Life creates origin-stories for many of the artist's famous paintings.
Stone conducted a large amount of "on-field" research for the novel, as is mentioned in the afterword. This correspondence lays the foundation for most of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist. It was Stone's first major publication, and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealer Theo van Gogh. Lust for Life (1934) is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships.
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