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OCR: No other Westerm European painter more universally familiar taus than Vincent van Gogh: no ather work has been more widely reproduced than his Starry Nig} fFig M find it in the homes of our friends and in the offices f four dentists -the paradigmatic masterpiece of the avant -garde epoch. This essay attempts ta retrieve Van Gogh's Work frorn the popular stereotype of the hallucinating genius, relocate squarely in the domain f social history, and return it to its rightful place ir the doctor' waiting raam in the kindergarten, and in our neighbor's hallway What is it that we see in the picture? There 1s first of all the sight of a night sky teerming with stellar life: the waning moon with its aureole,a net work of white vellow orange, and blue stars which seem to rotate and pul sate ano thro ...