- Foreword (to Part One): Deserted
- The Making of an Artist, 1853-1883
- The Family, 1853-1875
- Van Gogh’s Other Art: The Letters
- The Religious Maniac, 18750-1880
- “No Beginning but in God”: Van Gogh and Religion
- First Steps as an Artist
- Van Gogh’s Early Models
- Family Life: The Hague, 1882-1883
- Arts and Responsibility: Commitments for the Future
- No Soul, No Self: Drente, 1883
- The Years in Neuen, 1883-1885
- An Artist Pure and Simple: The First Year
- Progress: The Weavers Series
- “With all my strength”: Winter 1884-1885
- Painting as Manifesto: The Potato Eaters
- Understanding and Suspicion: Summer and Autumn 1885
- Colour and the Finished Work: Evolving a Theory of Art
- City Life, 1885-1888
- The Antwerp Interlude, Winter 1885-1886
- A Dutchman in Paris, 1886-1888
- Through the Window, 1886
- Isms, Isms, Isms: The 1887 Watershed
- The Far East on his Doorstep: Van Gogh and Japonism
- Foreword (to Part Two): The Unity of Art and Life
- Painting and Utopia: Arles, February 1888 to May 1889
- Arles: The Heart of Japan
- Personal Impressionism: Orchards in Blossom
- Under a Southern Sun: May to August 1888
- Working without Painting: Van Gogh’s Drawings
- Enchantment and Affliction: The Night Paintings of September 1888
- The Dream of an Artists’ Community: September and October 1888
- Aesthetic Subtlety: Van Gogh and Symbolism
- Genius and Error: Gauguin in Arles: October to December 1888
- Art and Madness
- The Supportive Power of Pictures: January to May 1889
- “Almost a Cry of Fear”: Saint-Rémy, May 1889 to May 1890
- The Monastic Life
- Olives, Cypresses and Hills: Van Gogh’s Compacted Landscape
- The Portraits
- Space and Colour: Metaphors of Paradox
- Exhibitions and Criticism: Van Gogh’s First Successes
- Selfhood and Otherness: Homage to the Masters
- Ways of Escape: The Final Months in Saint-Rémy
- Reverence and Awe: Van Gogh and Nature
- The End: Auvers-sur-Oise, May to July 1890
- On Doctor Gachet’s Territory
- Frieze Art: Van Gogh’s ‘Art nouveau’
- “I wish it were all over now”: Suicide
- A Revolution in Art: Modernism
- Appendices
- Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890: A Chronology
- Bibliography
- Comparative Table of Catalogue Numbers
- Index of Paintings
- Index of Names
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