Lust for Life

Lust for LifePrologue – London 1. L'ange aux poupons 2. Goupil and Company 3. In its own image, love creates love 4. "Let's forget it, shall we?" 5. The Van Goghs 6. "Why, you're nothing but a country boor!" 7. Ramsgate and IsleworthBook One – The Borinage 1. Amsterdam 2. Kay 3. A stuffy, provincial clergyman 4. Latin and Greek 5. Mendes da Costa 6. Where lies the greater strength? 7. Evangelical school 8. The Blackjaws 9. A miner's hut 10. Success! 11. Terril 12. Marcasse 13. A lesson in economics 14. Fragile 15. Black Egypt 16. Exit God 17. Bankruptcy 18. An incident of little importance 19. As one artist to another 20. Enter Theo 21. The old mill at RyswykBook Two – Etten 1. "There's a living in that!" 2. Fou 3. The student 4. Mijnheer Tersteeg 5. Anton Mauve 6. Kay comes to Etten 7. "No, never, never!" 8. There are some cities in which a man is forever ill-fatedBook Three – The Hague 1. The first studio 2. Christine 3. Work in progress 4. A man needs a woman 5. "You must hurry and begin to sell!" 6. Goodness grows in curious places 7. Savoir souffir sans se plaindre 8. The merciless sword 9. Love 10. The Holy Family 11. Theo comes to the Hague 12. Fathers are funny 13. L'art, c'est un combatBook Four – Nuenen 1. A studio in the vicarage 2. The weavers 3. Margot 4. "It's loving that's important, not being loved" 5. Whither thou goest 6. Inquisition 7. "Your work is almost salable, but…" 8. The Potato EatersBook Five – Paris 1. "Ah, yes, Paris!" 2. The explosion 3. "Why should anyone want to be a count when he can be a painter?" 4. Portrait of a primitive 5. Painting must become a science! 6. Rousseau gives a party 7. A poor wretch who hanged himself 8. Art goes amoral 9. Pere Tanguy 10. The Petit Boulevard 11. Art for the workingman 12. The Communist Art Colony 13. Southward, ever southward, to the sun! Book Six – Arles 1. Earthquake or revolution? 2. The painting machine 3. Le Pigeon 4. Postman 5. The Yellow House 6. Maya 7. Gaugin arrives 8. The sound and the fury 9. Fou-rou 10. "In existing society, the painter is but a broken vessel"Book Seven – St. Remy 1. Third Class Carriage 2. The fraternity of fous 3. An old crock is an old crock 4. "I discovered painting when I no longer had teeth or breath"Book Eight – Auvers 1. The first one-man exhibition 2. A specialist in nervous diseases 3. One cannot paint goodbye 4. A more resilient earth 5. "And in their death they were not divided"