Author: Vincent van GoghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Blessed Twilight
Author: Bob KunzingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972511070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
blessed twilight is the first person account of vincent van gogh. Extracted from 2000 pages of letters, vincent brings readers through his art, his loves, his life, and even to the point of his death
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886
Author: Vincent van GoghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Author: Vincent van GoghPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684843005
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: The Twentieth Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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The Teachers' Institute
Author: Praises
Author: Edwin Othello ExcellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gospel music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Volume of Poems
Author: Meriba Ada Babcock KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Blue and the Gray, and Other Verses
Author: Francis Miles FinchPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Facsimile [n.d.] of the entire poem The blue and the gray [1 l. engraving 24 cm.]--Letters, 1879 Dec. 24, & 1886, Jan. 13, Finch to William Gable and Alfred S. Roe [2 l. holograph signed] Finch replies to two autograph seekers.
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