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By Wilfred N. Arnold. 332 pp., illustrated. Boston, Birkhauser, 1992. $49.50. ISBN 0-8176-3616-1.

During Vincent van Gogh's last and most creative years he suffered from an unusual disease with attacks of horrible anxiety, confusion, and aggression, sometimes brought on by absinthe abuse. Once, during a delirious phase, after threatening to kill his friend Paul Gauguin, he cut off a lobe of his ear and presented it to a prostitute. His artistic powers were not diminished. On the contrary, between the attacks he engaged in exuberant artistic activity. It is to this period that we owe an impressive number of brilliant paintings, some of them created in a single day. Van Gogh himself felt . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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