Nearly one hundred and twenty years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh continues to exert a powerful fascination. This superb book offers the reader a selection of the artist's most unforgettable canvases as well as some lesser-known examples, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It explores the works in the context of Van Gogh's short but brilliant career, in which frequent spells of isolation still allowed lively engagement with his peers and the ideas of his time.Van Gogh's continuous stream of letters written to family and friends - one of the most important...
Nearly one hundred and twenty years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh continues to exert a powerful fascination. This superb book offers the reader a ...
