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030027436X epub A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Goghs profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today Vincent van Gogh (18531890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature whose work gained its strength from his direct encounters with the unspoiled landscape. Michael Lobel upends this commonplace view by showing how Van Goghs pictures are inseparable from the modern industrial era in which the artist livedfrom its factories and polluted skies to its coal mines and gasworksand how his art drew upon waste and pollution for its subjects and even for the very materials out of which it was made. Lobel underscores how Van Goghs engagement with the environmental realities of his time provides repeated forewarnings of the threats of climate change and ecological destruction we face today. Read more