This is the most complete edition of Van Gogh's letters ever produced, drawing on fifteen years of scholarship and dedicated research. For the first time, all the works of art to which Van Gogh refers are shown alongside the letters - not only the paintings and drawings that he himself was working on at the time, but also the works by others that he mentions.
• Features new transcriptions of every known letter to or from Van Gogh
• The complete collection: this edition includes all the letters, both in the Van Gogh Museum and those in other museums, archives and private collections
• New transcriptions render Van Gogh's words more closely than ever before - unimproved, faithful and accurate
• Van Gogh's sketches, made throughout the letters are reproduced here at full size
• New material: previously unknown letters and fragments of letters are published in English for the first time
• Authoritative editing: many omissions and misreadings in previous editions have now been corrected. For the first time the letters are fully annotated
• Includes supplementary texts and information about Van Gogh's life, his family, his correspondents, his characteristics as a letter writer and the context in which the letters were written, as well as a comprehensive list of materials discussed in the letters, a chronology of his life and a full index
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PRESS REVIEWS
'One of the major publishing achievements of our time'
- Andrew Motion, The Guardian
'No great visual artist ever wrote so much, or so well, as Vincent Van Gogh. With his words and visions united in all their blazing intensity, this momentous edition at last completes the palette of Vincent's double art'
- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
'A massive work of scholarship as well as a visual delight'
- Sunday Telegraph
'The greatest cache of writing about art left behind by any artist. Intense, relentless, gossipy, utterly fascinating'
- Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday TImes
'A celebration not only of a great artist but of art itself'
- John Banville, The Observer
'Publishing at its most creative and spectacular... simply as a piece of book design, this takes the breath away; but to read the letters, and watch this passionate, clumsy, brilliant, earnest, suffering genius find his way towards the work he was going to be world-famous for, is to be - if you have a soul at all - wonderstruck'
- Philip Pullman, The Guardian
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