Inventing Van Gogh
by Steven Dietz

Name: Inventing Van Gogh
Brand: Steven Dietz
SKU: 9780822219545
Rating: 4.08 (40 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

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120 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the lyrical quality and thought-provoking themes of the play, highlighting its exploration of art and obsession. Many are intrigued by the complex characters and the interplay between different time periods. However, some find the intricate connections a bit distracting or confusing.

Lyrical and thought-provoking scriptComplex characters and scenesVisual storytellingIntriguing historical elementsCan be confusing at times

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.

ThemesArt forgers Art forgers--Drama Gogh, Vincent van , 1853-1890 PS3554.I385 I58 2004

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