Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Identity Crisis: The Self-Portrait of a Thirteen-Year-Old Van Gogh
Description: The person in the photograph of a thirteen-year-old Vincent Van GoghWhat did the influential Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh actually look like? Popular culture and media have propagated the belief that there have been only two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh himself. If his written exchanges are to be believed, Vincent despised self-portrait photography. However, a recent breakthrough study in the Brill journal Oud Holland suggests that there are not just two photographs of Vincent Van Gogh. There is just one.So, what about the second photograph?Teio Meedendorp, Researcher at the Va...