Inventing Van Gough Book

THE STORY: A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, INVENTING VAN GOGH is the story of the final van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before the artist's death, which has never been seenuntil now. Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece - and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with van Gogh himself. The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth. Like a van Gogh painting, Dietz's story is a gorgeous example of excess - one that remakes reality with broad, well-chosen brush strokes. At evening's end, we're left with the author's resounding opinions on art and artifice, and provoked by his constant query into which is greater: van Gogh's art, or his violent myth. - Phoenix New Times. Dietz's writing is never simple. It is always brilliant. Shaded, compressed, direct, lucid - he frames his subject with a remarkable understanding of painting as a physical experience. - Tucson Citizen.