Lust for life biography
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Lust for Life ( film)
film by Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Lust for Life is a American biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the novel of the same title by Irving Stone which was adapted for the screen by Norman Corwin.
It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as his brother Theo, with Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Anthony Quinn. Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance, while Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[3]
Plot
[edit]Vincent has trained to be a minister, like his father, but the church authorities find him unsuitable. He pleads with them to be allowed some position and they place him in a very poor mining community. Here he becomes deeply absorbed in the miners' plight and begins sketching their daily life.
The religious leaders do not like his approach, and they frown on his social activism and care for the poor. He returns home to his father's house. Here a woman he obsessively loves (his cousin) rejects Van Gogh because of his inability to support himself financially. The infatu
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Lust for Life (novel)
novel by Irving Stone
Lust for Life () is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships.[1] It was Stone's first major publication, and is largely based on the collection of letters between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, art dealerTheo van Gogh.[2][full citation needed] This correspondence lays the foundation for most of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist.[3][4] Stone conducted a large amount of "on-field" research for the novel, as is mentioned in the afterword.
The narrative of Lust for Life creates origin-stories for many of the artist's famous paintings. including The Potato Eaters and Sunflowers. Stone wanted to explain Van Gogh's difficult life and how he began, flourished, and died as a painter. People close to Van Gogh's life, like Paul Gauguin, are also characters in the novel.
The book is divided into nine smaller "books", titled based on the places Van Gogh lived: London (Prologue), the Borinage, Etten, The Hague, Paris, Arles, St. Remy, and Auvers.
The novel was adapted into a film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one
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Author: Irving Stone
Type: PAPERBACK
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Date: 9th Lordly,
Publisher: Appreciate BOOKS
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