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"Written from the heart and without restraint, alive."--The New York Times
Vincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal the man behind such masterpieces as The Starry Night and The Bedroom--a desperate man whose quest for love became a flight into madness and for whom every day was a "fight for life." Irving Stone, acclaimed author of Lust for Life and other remarkable biographic novels, has collected Vincent van Gogh's fascinating letters to Theo. Here we see the great artist as a human being as well as a man with an appointment with destiny. Van Gogh is a man struggling with doubts and fears, beset by poverty and mental illness, but also a painter who dares to break all the rules of academic art to create priceless masterpieces never honored during his lifetime. He was part of the coterie of great artists of his day while as the same time an intimate of aging streetwalkers. These letters are outpourings of his soul that paint a vibrant self-portrait in words equal to the intensity and emotion his painting created. This is the personal story of a legend.
Vincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal the man behind such masterpieces as The Starry Night and The Bedroom--a desperate man whose quest for love became a flight into madness and for whom every day was a "fight for life." Irving Stone, acclaimed author of Lust for Life and other remarkable biographic novels, has collected Vincent van Gogh's fascinating letters to Theo. Here we see the great artist as a human being as well as a man with an appointment with destiny. Van Gogh is a man struggling with doubts and fears, beset by poverty and mental illness, but also a painter who dares to break all the rules of academic art to create priceless masterpieces never honored during his lifetime. He was part of the coterie of great artists of his day while as the same time an intimate of aging streetwalkers. These letters are outpourings of his soul that paint a vibrant self-portrait in words equal to the intensity and emotion his painting created. This is the personal story of a legend.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Stone, Irving
- ISBN: 9780452275041
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.10
- Number Of Pages: 480
- Publication Year: 1995
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A touching autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
David M. - 2 years agoThis book, collected from the letters that Van Gogh penned to his brother, presents a human and intimate autobiographical portrait of the great port-impressionist painter. Within his small triumphs and many disappointments that it chronicles, you can feel the lost and searching soul of this artist. Although his general biography is familiar to many and his art is fairly ubiquitous, seeing him struggle and lean on his brother, his best friend, for support is touching and enlightening. His moods are not always melancholy and the manias are infectious even after all the years since these notes were written. Not only do you get a small window into Van Gogh as a philosophical thinker and as a flawed human, you get to pick apart how he works, hearing his process as he comes to his craft. His love affairs (with humans and his work) are bared in tandem with his most profound thoughts on life, art, religion, and love.
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