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Title: Dear Theo
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
ISBN-10: 0452275040
EAN: 9780452275041
ISBN: 9780452275041
Publisher: New American Library
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 01/09/1995
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 202mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Width: 26mm
Item Weight: 397g
Contributor: Jean Stone (Edited by), Irving Stone (Edited by)
Genre: Biography
Topic: Arts & Photography
Author: Jean Stone
Release Year: 1995
Description: “Written from the heart and without restraint, alive.”—The New York Times

Vincent van Gogh, the great but tormented artist, bared his tortured yet ecstatic soul in his letters to his confidant and companion, his beloved brother Theo. These letters reveal the man behind such masterpieces as The Starry Night and The Bedroom—a desperate man whose quest for love became a flight into madness and for whom every day was a “fight for life.”

Irving Stone, acclaimed author of Lust for Life and other remarkable biographic novels, has collected Vincent van Gogh’s fascinating letters to Theo. Here we see the great artist as a human being as well as a man with an appointment with destiny. Van Gogh is a man struggling with doubts and fears, beset by poverty and mental illness, but also a painter who dares to break all the rules of academic art to create priceless masterpieces never honored during his lifetime. He was part of the coterie of great artists of his day while as the same time an intimate of aging streetwalkers. These letters are outpourings of his soul that paint a vibrant self-portrait in words equal to the intensity and emotion his painting created. This is the personal story of a legend.

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