{"id":3700,"date":"2009-05-05T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:35:08","slug":"bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear-pt-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/05\/05\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear-pt-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit and Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear PT II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><> <> <> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/13\/david-ireland\/\">David Ireland <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/irelandvangogh.jpg\" alt=\"irelandvangogh\" title=\"irelandvangogh\" width=\"315\" height=\"489\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/irelandvangogh.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/irelandvangogh-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Three Attempts to Understand Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear in Terms of the Map of Africa<\/strong>, 1987 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturevulture.net\/ArtAndArch\/Ireland.htm\">image source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/10\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear\/\">Part I (Bullshit &#8211; Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/may\/04\/vincent-van-gogh-ear\">Art historians claim<\/a> Van Gogh&#8217;s ear &#8216;cut off by Gauguin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ear.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ear\" width=\"468\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While curators at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam stand by the theory of self-mutilation, Kaufmann argues that Van Gogh dropped hints in letters to his brother, Theo, once commenting : &#8220;Luckily Gauguin &#8230; is not yet armed with machine guns and other dangerous war weapons.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ireland Three Attempts to Understand Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear in Terms of the Map of Africa, 1987 (image source) Part I (Bullshit &#8211; Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear) Art historians claim Van Gogh&#8217;s ear &#8216;cut off by Gauguin&#8217; While curators at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam stand by the theory of self-mutilation, Kaufmann argues that Van &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/05\/05\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear-pt-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bullshit and Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear PT II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,95,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-david-ireland-bruce-conner","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}