Who Shot Van Gogh?: Facts and Counterfacts About the World's Most Famous Artist

Fact or fiction? An imaginative assemblage of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the artist’s much mythologized existence.

Van Gogh is the most famous artist in the world, yet our understanding of his life is full of contradictions. Art historians, filmmakers, journalists, psychologists, and conspiracy theorists have offered theories on his life and work, yet their views are often poles apart. Van Gogh has been described as a suffering genius; a na...