The Strange Death of Theo Van Gogh

by Fergus Downie (July 2017)

Little Dutch Boy safeguarding the essential.  (Artwork built on the work of Marguerite Scott)

Prelude

Surveying the life’s work of Theo Van Gogh it is difficult not to read into it metaphors of civilisational decline. A distant relative of the great Artist, he had built his modest acclaim slumming the lowest reaches of 21st-century Prolefeed and, by his late thirties, he had exhausted even this cheap line of scatological obsessions. more>>>