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The Dark Side of Van Gogh

How the Expressionists misunderstood their hero.

By |Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at 7:20 AM ET

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.