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Article: Saint Paul & Saint Vincent.(Review)
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- March 23, 2001
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Van Gogh and Gauguin
The Search for Sacred Art
Deborah Silverman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $60, 494 pp.
Deborah Silverman's intelligent new book, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art, asserts the importance of the Christian church in the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art by investigating the religious underpinnings of two of modernism's most venerated figures. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) are the star-crossed partners of late-nineteenth-century modernism. Meeting in Paris, both sought to advance beyond realism to a realm of symbolic representation. Gauguin went first to Brittany, then Tahiti, in search ...