The National Gallery exhibition ‘Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ (14 September to 19 January) covers the time he spent at Arles and at the Saint-Remy-de-Provence asylum. Less well-known is the time Van Gogh spent in London and the fact that he was an avid reader of the novels of Charles Dickens.

In her talk, Griselda Pollock will explore the challenging idea that Van Gogh was, at heart, more of a Victorian than a modern artist. She is emerita professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds. For her work as a feminist art historian and cultural theorist she was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2020 and CAA Life-time Achievement Award for Writing on Art in 2023. 

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