Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App (just search for “Stuff about Things Art History”) or by clicking HERE. Happy listening!
Useful links:
- Museum of Modern Art – Official entry for Starry Night
- Official Website of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam [tons of information!]
- Google Arts & Culture – Starry Night [super high resolution image, zoomable]
Sources:
- Bakker, Nienke, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten, eds. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020.
- Boime, Albert. Starry Night: A History of Matter, a Matter of History. New York: Voyager, 1995.
- Bomford, David, ed. Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2019. [catalogue for exhibition]
- Hall, Marcia. “Color as the Expression of the Immaterial.” In The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting, 229-253. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. [chapter in book]
- Hulsker, Jan. The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1996.
- Keller, Horst. Vincent van Gogh: The Final Years. New York: Harry N. Abrams, c1969.
- Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith. Van Gogh: The Life. New York: Random House, 2011.
- Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. [PDF available for free through the Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Essays/articles:
- Hammond, Claudia. “Does mental illness enhance creativity?” BBC Future, February 25, 2016.
- Paulson, Noelle. “Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night.” Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.
- Trachtman, Paul. “Van Gogh’s Night Visions.” Smithsonian Magazine, January 2008.
- White, Katie. “Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Has Captivated…” Artnet News, October 15, 2021.
Articles related to the 2020 theft of The Parsonage Garden at Neunen:
- “Dutch Art Thief Gets Eight Years…” Artforum, September 27, 2021.
- Rea, Naomi. “A Remarkable Hostage-Like Photograph…” Art World, June 18, 2020.
- Wu, Katherine. “Van Gogh Masterpiece Stolen from Dutch Museum Shuttered by COVID-19.” Smithsonian Magazine, March 30, 2020.
Studies on Creativity and Mental Illness [most require individual or institutional subscriptions to read]:
- Abraham, Anna. “Is there an inverted-U relationship between creativity and psychopathology?” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): article 750.
- Andreasen, Nancy. “Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives.” The American Journal of Psychiatry 144, no. 10 (October 1987): 1288-1292.
- Jamison, Kay Redfield. “Mood disorders and patterns of creativity in British writers and artists.” Psychiatry 52, no. 2 (May 1989): 125-134.
- Ludwig, Arnold. “Creative achievement and psychopathology: Comparison among professions.” The American Journal of Psychotherapy 456, no. 3 (1992): 330-356.
- Schlesinger, Judith. “Creative mythconceptions: A closer look at the evidence for the ‘mad genius’ hypothesis.” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 3, no. 2 (2017), 62-72.
- Taylor, Christa. “Creativity and Mood Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 12, no. 6 (2017): 1040-1076.
- Waddell, Charlotte. “Creativity and Mental Illness: Is There a Link?” The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 43, no. 2 (1998): 166-172.
- Zabelina, Darya, David Condon, and Mark Beeman. “Do dimensional psychopathology measures relate to creative achievement or divergent thinking?” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): article 1029.
Media / Exhibitions:
- Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
- Lust for Life (1956 film)
- Loving Vincent (2017 film)
- At Eternity’s Gate (2018 film)
- Doctor Who – “Vincent and the Doctor” (s05 e10)
- clip of Van Gogh visiting the Louvre (get your tissues!)
- clip of Starry Night
Mentioned in episode:
- Lilianne Milgrom – L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art – Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States
Images:
Happy listening!
Lindsay
finally you are back!
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Thanks, Dot! I’m glad to be back! ❤
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Thanks for shout out! Enjoyed the Van Gogh episode
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