Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-03-22
Books mentioned on Selects: Seven - No, Wait, Five - Mysteries of the Art World
When you get a bunch of artistic types together into a community – aka, the art world – some intrigue and mystery are bound to arise. Listen in to this classic episode as Chuck and Josh cover strangeness around Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Raphael, and Vermeer – plus don’t miss Hilter!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Discussed“if you've there was a 1999 novel from Tracy Chevalier uh the girl with the Pearl Earring and then the 2000 film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson who was perfectly cast”
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Van Gogh
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith is a comprehensive and deeply researched biographical examination of the legendary artist's troubled life, psychological struggles, and disputed final days.
Discussed“in 2011 there was a book written called van go colon the life written by Stephen I'm gonna say mifa okay and Gregory white Smith”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is an autobiographical manifesto detailing the dictator's political ideology and anti-Semitic worldviews.
Discussed“I think I read in that in mine comp I haven't read mine comp but I read an article by somebody who read minec confin said that he said it was like a bolt from the blue and that um you know he was pursuing this dream that his father would like beat him out of”
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