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Dear
Theo : The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh(uk)
Vincent
Van Gogh, Irving Stone (Editor), Jean Stone
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Paperback
(September 1995)
Plume Books; ISBN: 0452275040
aron_co@yahoo.com , 16 August, 1999
The soul of a great man... edited by a great writer.
You can see the world through Vincent's eyes here... you can
actually get to see how he thought and felt... his was a
deep, deep soul, therefore misunderstood by everyone that
surrounded him...He was lonely all his life, so everything
he had to say he said it to his brother Theo through this
letters. And so, he made a huge collection of letters filled
with a lot of thoughts, feelings, philosophy, wisdom and of
course a lot of comments on painting too. The letters are
edited by Irving Stone (author of "Lust for Life", the best
van Gogh biography I've run into). Although the book is a
little hard to read, it really is worth it.
paulet:no03-522-0231 from Arlington, VA USA , 13
October, 1998
Van Gogh both thought, wrote & felt with his heart.
I read Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo shortly after
I saw the Van Gogh exhibit in Washington, DC. The effect was
overwhelming. So much pain. So much loneliness. So much
genius! We all are the richer for his pain and his poverty!
v-kausb@microsoft.com from Seattle, USA , 17 August,
1998
A beautiful and sensitive book...
A triumph of a book, a definitive and soulful look into the
life and times of one of the greatest painters since the
inception of cave painting. I could feel the Artiste's
loneliness, his eccentricity, his passion for colours, his
love for humanity and the innate tragedy of his unhappy
life. A book which can occupy you for days after you have
finished reading it. A prize buy.
Gilles
Plazy
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Hardcover - 168 pages (25 March, 1999)
Reviews Synopsis
The core of this text takes the reader to the towns in
Provence that inspired Van Gogh's greatest work -
Auvers-Sur-Oise, Arles and St. Remy. But we also go to
Holland, where Van Gogh was born and where his career as an
artist began, and to Paris, where he was an art dealer for a
while.
Stranger
on the Earth : A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh
Albert J. Lubin
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Paperback
(September 1996)
Reviews
Synopsis
The personality of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - a
19th-century combination of dropout, rebel and genius - and
the source of his enormous achievement continue to fascinate
people as deeply as his vivid, wildly painted canvasses of
sunflowers, peasants and starry nights. In this in-depth
study of the relationship between van Gogh's psychological
development and his art, Albert J. Lubin, Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Stanford University and a
practising psychoanalyst, draws on the tremendous wealth of
information available about van Gogh to explore his personal
conflicts in the context of the forces that moulded him:
familial, historical, cultural, religious, artistic and
literary. Dr Lubin approaches van Gogh not as a mysterious
mix of sick eccentric and martyred artist, but as a complete
man who transformed his suffering into a phenomenal body of
work. Lubin's daring psychological insights and art
criticism allow us to better understand, and more fully
appreciate, van Gogh's artistic triumph over his inner
torment.
Customer Comments
Punky1335@aol.com from East Rockaway, New York , 17
August, 1999
Lubin analyzes van Gogh from a different angle.
As I am writing a thesis on van Gogh, Lubin has been my
savior. He is the only author to focus on the brother
Vincent born exactly one year to the day before the famous
artist. This brother greatly influenced the works of van
Gogh. You learn a lot about Vincent van Gogh by reading this
psychologists point of view.
Van Gogh in Arles
Alfred
Nemeczek
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Hardcover -
128 pages (29 September, 1995)
Reviews Synopsis
In Arles, Vincent van Gogh was seized by a dramatic passion.
Inspired by the light and myriad colours when he first came
to this little town hundreds of miles from his native
Holland, in just over a year he painted 333 works in a
frenzy of artistic activity.
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van
Gogh, Mark Roskill (Editor)
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Paperback
- 364 pages (13 September, 1993)
Reviews
Synopsis
This selection of letters written by Vincent van Gogh was
compiled by Professor Mark Roskill, who contributes an
introduction and notes, also includes the memoir of van Gogh
written by his sister-in-law.
Lust for Life:
the Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Irving Stone
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Reviews
A biography of Van Gogh. No artist has been more ruthlessly
driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from
most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van
Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant
struggle against poverty, madness and despair.
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