Vincent van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (Vol. 1-6)
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Vincent van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (Vol. 1-6) Details
Review “The most important art publication of 2009, if not of the decade.” - Financial Times“This could be the best autobiography of an artist yet to appear anywhere.” - The Economist“Has a depth that would not exist were this a collection of only images or only words. This could be the best autobiography of an artist yet to appear anywhere.” - The Economist“A massive work of scholarship as well as a visual delight.” - Sunday Telegraph [UK]“Twenty years worth of his letters, published in a spectacular illustrated six-volume edition are the longest, warmest, most attentive account of an artist’s life seen from the inside that has ever been.” - New Yorker“The greatest cache of writing about art left behind by any artist. Intense, relentless, gossipy, utterly fascinating.” - The Sunday Times [London]“With his words and visions united in all their blazing intensity, this momentous edition at last completes the palette of Vincent's double art.” - The Independent [UK]“It is certainly one of the best art books I’ve ever read and the only one I would truly say today, at this moment, is truly indispensable” - Modern Painters“With the publication of this monumental six-volume edition of his letters, Vincent van Gogh is fully revealed as a supreme writer-painter…. This collection is definitive.” - ARTnews“A richly annotated and illustrated six-volume compendium.... Each letter is newly transcribed, painstakingly retranslated without adornment or amendment, and in some case redated in accordance with new research.” - The Wall Street Journal Read more About the Author Nienke Bakker is Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Leo Jansen is Curator of Paintings at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.Hans Luijten is Curator of Research at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Read more
Reviews
A magnificent effort of scholarship on the now beloved, but then obscure, Vincent van Gogh.These books will be of keen interest to both art experts and common readers. Due to price, the set may be out of the reach for many; but if it can be afforded, it will take an honored place in the library of any one who appreciates great art. Beyond interesting discussions of the technical and inspirational background to many paintings, the book reveals the deep relationship between Vincent and his younger brother Theo.It took me several years of intermittent reading to finally close the last page of volume 5, but it was worth the slow journey. I now look forward to a visit next spring to the great museums of The Netherlands to see many of this master's actual paintings.
