Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times. Available on orders 50 to 1000 - Learn more. This edition includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters. This edition also includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters. The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing Van Goghs inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing van Gogh's inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics. Above all, they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation. A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Goughs letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one. A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture.
Engaging candidly and movingly with his religious struggles, his ill-fated search for love, his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo, the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman and a martyr to art, showing instead a man of great emotional and spiritual depths. “Things are going well for me here, I have a wonderful home and it’s a great pleasure for me to observe London and the English way of life…”įew artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's, and this selection, spanning his artistic career, sheds light on every facet of the life and work of this complex and tortured man.
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