USC instructor talks on Van Gogh website project

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A University of South Carolina art instructor is lecturing on a website that accompanies a new biography of artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Elizabeth Petit worked with authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith to organize its 200 images, 6,000 pages of notes, photos and biographies that accompany the 1,000-page book.

The authors, who live in Aiken, won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2009 book on artist Jackson Pollock.

“Van Gogh: A Life” was released in October.

Petit worked with the USC Center for Digital Humanities to develop the website. Students from the schools of computer science, library and information science and media arts assisted her in the work.

The McMaster College lecture is free and open to the public.

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Online:

http://www.vangoghbiography.com