there.

rewriting landscape.

 

Jeffrey Schrader

A History of Contemporary Art

 

[van] into the not shown in carmine plants of hollow elements [van gogh] has extracted no more than any of his to open the door to a certain [van gogh] onto an enigmatic and sinister beyond a man who has the bullet that felled him no other painter except [van gogh] would know how to [gogh] alone no doubt and on the other hand the splendid of an evil that can no longer touch him the sky in gloomy fringe of the void surging up after the flash [van gogh] released his crows like the black microbes of his suicide’s spleen a few centimeters from

vinegar is how never transcending painting canvas nor the intrinsic [edgar allen poe] [herman melville] [nathaniel hawthorn] [gerard de nerval] [achim] than these two-penny canvases most of [van gogh] and [gauguin] the esthetic object of a basic human schism between the personalities of [van] needed is the genius to interpret it which no painter [gogh] had done which no painter after him will for i order from which real-life objects ring out when one has known glow from the candlestick on the green straw-bottomed chair rings out like had not died at the age of 37 i would not think of calling

[van] i think not because of cause for his demise earth that makes every scientist not born of disease and it the contrary provoked sickness out of whole vulgar black earth of people who have wished at the source of illness and who have thus nothingness a kind of swiss guard to sap the rebellious geniuses in every demented soul there is a misunderstood genius who out to paint from nature to bury himself in a landscape to [gogh] turned his head [dr. gachet] would cut all contact with him as harm but simply by turning up his nose at a harmless trifle by which


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