Michael Lobel: Thanks! In the book's introduction I focus on Van Gogh's "Flower Beds" painting at the NGA, which highlights the challenge of defining the category of nature with any precision. I'm low-key obsessed with the painting, which I know is not as sought after as his later work but I love all the same

An update on my Van Gogh book: turns out it's been selling so well that two days after its release it's already seeing some delays on Amazon😮. The good news: if you're interested, it can be ordered directly from Yale Press, which has plenty of copies available: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Van Gogh and the End of Natureyalebooks.yale.edu A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world to...

I'll have to check to see if it is one of the four or five books featured in what used to be our bookstore.

Thanks! In the book's introduction I focus on Van Gogh's "Flower Beds" painting at the NGA, which highlights the challenge of defining the category of nature with any precision. I'm low-key obsessed with the painting, which I know is not as sought after as his later work but I love all the same

I believe several scholars don't accept it as by Van Gogh?

I haven't heard that...? It's in the major catalogue raisonné, so I've always assumed it was. And it's just awkward enough that it tracks with his lack of painterly sophistication that early on (when he was in The Hague)

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