Author: Vincent Van Gogh
Translator: Seong-rim Shin
Publisher: Wisdomhouse
312 pages | 162*222mm
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About This Book
Van Gogh was 37 and on the edge of fame when, in 1890, he shot and killed
himself. Unable to sell his brilliant canvases, he was utterly dependent upon
his younger brother, Theo, to whom most of the letters collected here are
written. Anguished by loss of faith after planning to be a priest, disappointed
in several once-promising love affairs, he was also so tormented by poverty that
one of his artistic breakthroughs occurred when, without proper colors, he
brushed in "a garden, green by nature, but painted without actual green, nothing
but Prussian blue and chrome yellow." Whether van Gogh's suicide was the
inevitable culmination of depression, or due to epilepsy or to professional
frustration (he is remembered, beyond his pictures, for razoring off part of his
ear), his letters reveal that the end was long contemplated. In 1878, he had
written to Theo, "It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some
truthful work." By the time he put a hole in his chest, he knew he had done
that. The letters, edited by de Leeuw, the director of the van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam, echo the artist's passionate voice, and the connective narrative
excerpts other letters that readers may regret not having in full. Integral to
the letters are 49 pen-and-ink sketches that evidence van Gogh's development
into a creative force. Although each letter possesses an inherent pathos because
one knows what lies ahead, van Gogh's epistolary appeal goes beyond melodrama.
Often inspired by books despite being a limner of peasant life and the land, he
once wrote, "How beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is;
his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy."
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