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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Paperback)
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 680
You Save R26 (5%)
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Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was
also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique
self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural
scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality,
struggling with utter integrity to fulfil his artistic destiny.
This major new edition, which is based on an entirely new
translation, reinstating a large number of passages omitted from
earlier editions, is expressly designed to reveal his inner journey
as much as the outward facts of his life. It includes complete
letters wherever possible, linked with brief passages of connecting
narrative and showing all the pen-and-ink sketches that originally
went with them. Despite the familiar image of Van Gogh as an
antisocial madman who died a martyr to his art, his troubled life
was rich in friendships and generous passions. In his letters we
discover the humanitarian and religious causes he embraced, his
fascination with the French Revolution, his striving for God and
for ethical ideals, his desperate courtship of his cousin, Kee Vos,
and his largely unsuccessful search for love. All of this, suggests
De Leeuw, demolishes some of the myths surrounding Van Gogh and his
career but brings hint before us as a flesh-and-blood human being,
an individual of immense pathos and spiritual depth. Perhaps even
more moving, these letters illuminate his constant conflicts as a
painter, torn between realism, symbolism and abstraction; between
landscape and portraiture; between his desire to depict peasant
life and the exciting diversions of the city; between his uncanny
versatility as a sketcher and his ideal of the full-scale finished
tableau. SinceVan Gogh received little feedback from the public, he
wrote at length to friends, fellow artists and his family, above
all to his brother Theo, the Parisian art dealer, who was his
confidant and mainstay. Along with his intense powers of visual
imagination, Vincent brought to the
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