George Eliot and Van Gogh: Radiant Realism

Vincent Van Gogh had a deep and abiding interest in the fiction of George Eliot and her mode of depicting the ordinary matter of ‘provincial life’ in luminous detail. This article argues that Eliot’s influence on Van Gogh can be seen in the formal, and not just thematic, radicalism shared by both. H...

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Main Author: Ruth Livesey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-03-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1936/