Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age by Eksteins, Modris (2012) Hardcover

In **Solar Dance**, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed **Rites of Spring**and **Walking Since Daybreak**. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era--from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall--that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. **Solar Dance**is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today. In Solar Dance , acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak . Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era--from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall--that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today. Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-up to his internationally acclaimed "Rites of Spring" and "Walking Since Daybreak." Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era - from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall - that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. "Solar Dance" is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence - highly relevant to all of us today A consideration of how the growth in popularity of Vincent van Gogh's paintings and the trial of Otto Wacker for forgery, resulted in an examination of truth and authenticity during and after the Second World War. Modris Eksteins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.