02453cam a2200361 i 4500 1906843218 TxAuBib 20250313120000.0 241126s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639368457 HRD 39.95 1639368450 HRD 39.95 (OCoLC)1473765637 TxAuBib rda Unger, Miles J. Fire in his soul [BOOK] : Van Gogh, Paris, and the making of an artist / Miles J. Unger. Van Gogh, Paris, and the making of an artist. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York : Pegasus Books, 2025. 646 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-610) and index. "Vincent Van Gogh arrived in the French capital on the last day of February 1886, a month short of his thirty-third birthday. He was a man beaten down by life, half-starved, and nearly broken psychologically. He was saved by his brother Theo, who provided him with room, board, and, most crucially, emotional support while he attempted to master the difficult craft of painting. Thus far, Vincent's crude scenes of peasant life rendered in murky shades of brown and gray were both hackneyed and amateurish. Theo, a successful art dealer at a prestigious Parisian firm, dismissed them as gloomy, unappealing, and, worst of all, unmarketable. By the time Vincent left Paris, almost exactly two years later, he’d transformed himself into one of the most original artists of the age, turning out works of hallucinatory intensity in vivid hues and stamped with his own distinctive personality. A Fire in His Soul chronicles this remarkable transformation. It’s a tale filled with tragedy and triumph, personal anguish and creative fulfillment, as Vincent, through sheer force of will, reinvents himself as a painter of unparalleled expressive power.". 20250313. Gogh, Vincent van 1853-1890 Biography. Painters France Biography. Painters Netherlands Biography. Biographies.