by Pascal Bonafoux · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070530397
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«Van Gogh, le soleil en face» is the biographical essay by Pascal Bonafoux on the painter Vincent van Gogh, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (176 pages, in French).
The book traces the life of Vincent van Gogh: his youth, his time as a preacher, his training in drawing and his devotion to painting until his final years. It presents painting as the absolute center of his existence, his struggle against solitude and madness, and his determination to «make people see», with testimonies, letters and graphic documents accompanying the evolution of his work.
It is number 17 in the Découvertes Gallimard collection.
For readers interested in biographies of artists and in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.
Pascal Bonafoux is a French writer, novelist, art critic and art historian, a specialist in self-portraiture. He collaborates with various newspapers and magazines, he is the author of numerous essays dedicated to art and was a resident at the French Academy in Rome. He is professor of art history at Paris 8 University, and is also a curator who organises exhibitions either in France or abroad.
