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Mystery of The Night Café

Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent van Gogh

Mystery of The Night Café

Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent van Gogh

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£72.27

Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438426112
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 20/03/2009
Width: 17.5 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Written like a detective story, this book explores the spirituality of one of the world's most beloved artists, Vincent van Gogh, through one of Western art's most mysterious paintings, The Night Café. Done in almost garish colors, the work depicts a late night in a café serving a poorer element of society, and Van Gogh himself saw both destructive forces and gaiety in the work. With author Cliff Edwards, we follow a trail of clues from a Yale art gallery to a neighborhood in Arles, from a novel by Émile Zola to a largely forgotten image of Jesus that hung in Van Gogh's bedroom. We enter the imagination of Van Gogh through the books he read, the art he admired, and the people with whom he identified, and arrive at startling conclusions that include a new and deeply spiritual understanding of a café after midnight and the "night prowlers" who inhabit it.
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Three Nights in the Devil’s Furnace

2. The Fortunate Journey

3. Seeing What Is Not There

4. Vincent’s Literary Imagination

5. The Bible and the Novel

6. One Word in One Zola Novel

7. The Man in White

8. Each a Love Story

9. A Greater Artist than All Other Artists

10. Refusing Medieval Tapestries

11. Mystery within a Mystery

12. Christus Consolator

13. The Patron Saint of Artists

14. Nature Speaks

15. Nothing More Truly Artistic

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Cliff Edwards, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Cliff Edwards is Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of several books, including Van Gogh and God: A Creative Spiritual Quest and The Shoes of Van Gogh: A Spiritual and Artistic Journey to the Ordinary.

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