Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

by Modris Eksteins

Book Overview

In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065670
• ISBN13: 9780674065673
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"