Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - John Adams Institute

So you think you know Vincent Van Gogh? Think again. In the first major biography of the Dutch genius in more than 70 years, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith-who previously won a Pulitzer Prize for their biography of Jackson Pollock-give a richly detailed, and in some ways surprising, portrait of the artist. Through examination of previously untapped sources, they both enrich the popular image of Van Gogh as an impoverished, struggling genius and added substantial new elements to it. And the big news: they make a compelling case that Van Gogh’s death was not suicide
but in fact murder.
Moderator: Koen Kleijn, De Groene Amsterdammer
In cooperation with Prometheus publishers
This video was recorded on November 22, 2011.

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

I doubt a biography on Vincent van Gogh will ever be written as brilliantly as Van Gogh: The Life. Once you start reading the book, you simply can't put it down: the style, the tone, the deep, serious, objective 10-year research surfaces on each and every page and on each and every note posted on their Website.
Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith deserve my life-long respect ... My most sincere reverence to Gregory... R.I.P.

[@tedteodoro5907]

Reading the book now. Smith's narrative is fluid and insightful, very much a psychological profiling of Van Gogh as it is a timeline of his life. Some mention of the interviewer by a poster below, I felt that he exhibited an impatience with the writers that was not at all helpful in flushing out the nuances of writing this biography. Smith, an excellent writer, we lost a great one when he passed away.

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

I doubt a biography on Vincent van Gogh will ever be written as brilliantly as Van Gogh: The Life. Once you start reading the book, you simply can't put it down: the style, the tone, the deep, serious, objective 10-year research surfaces on each and every page and on each and every note posted on their Website.
Ted, I couldn't agree more with what you wrote...Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith deserve my life-long respect ... My most sincere reverence to Gregory... R.I.P.

[@stuartayre7618]

Good talk and good questions from the audience. The interviewer seemed to get unnecessarily perturbed when he felt the speakers were speaking too much, though.

[@Gustolfo]

Gracias por el vídeo. Estoy leyendo el libro y me parece fascinante. Un gran trabajo. Saludos desde Lima, Perú.

[@GnomeChomsky9999]

There could be a Vincent and Gauguin sitcom.