false 968753 1861058306 9781861058300 10 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179887049m/968753.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968753.Van_Gogh_s_Women_His_Love_Affairs_and_Journey_into_Madness 248497 Derek Fell 46 19 4 0 false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:09:10 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 11:42:57 -0800 2009
The best parts of this book are excerpts from Van Gogh's letters and diaries with wonderful entries about life, love, philosophy and art. Van Gogh was capable of clear, sharp thinking and logic, and you find out he deliberately used colors to make the canvas literally overwhelm the human eye, he incorporated Japanese ideas of outlining and using ink hues, and he had strong opinions about contemporaries like Gauguin and Cezanne. Great stuff! However, this particular biography has way too much psychobabble piffle unworthy of Van Gogh's genius. What's worse is it's not just piffle, it's Piffle Lite, as Fraiser and Niles would say.]]>