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Break of Day
Stephen Fife
Inventing Van Gogh
by Steven Dietz
Synopsis
A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, INVENTING VAN GOGH is the story of the final van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before the artist's death, which has never been seen until now.
Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with van Gogh himself.
The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth.
Press Reviews
"Like a van Gogh painting, Dietz's story is a gorgeous example of excess—one that remakes reality with broad, well-chosen brush strokes. At evening's end, we're left with the author's resounding opinions on art and artifice, and provoked by his constant query into which is greater: van Gogh's art, or his violent myth.“ —Phoenix New Times. ”Dietz's writing is never simple. It is always brilliant. Shaded, compressed, direct, lucid—he frames his subject with a remarkable understanding of painting as a physical experience."
— Tucson Citizen
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 2004
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822219545
ISBN-10 0822219549
LCCN 2005281503
LCC PS3554.I385 I58 2004
DCC 812/.54
Inventing Van Gogh is a American play written by Steven Dietz and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2004).
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