The Wisdom of Van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters of Vincent van Gogh

The Wisdom of Van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters of Vincent van Gogh - Hardcover

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The Wisdom of Van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters of Vincent van Gogh - Hardcover

The Wisdom of Van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters of Vincent van Gogh - Hardcover

by Vincent Van Gogh
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Book Overview

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Wisdom of Van Gogh presents more than 200 of Vincent van Gogh's most evocative quotes about life, career, love and faith, paired with carefully-chosen paintings and drawings. First published in 2015 as a 3-volume paperback series entitled Van Gogh to Go, this newly expanded hardcover edition makes the perfect gift or coffee table book for your home or office. Whether you're an artist seeking inspiration, or simply a person looking for relief from the innumerable stressors of 21st century life, The Wisdom of Van Gogh offers practical advice for creative living.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Tom Willett (1950- ) is an American musician, author and entertainment industry executive. He toured and recorded extensively as a bass player during the '60s and '70s, served in Nashville as booking agent and manager for numerous artists in the '80s, and worked in Los Angeles and New York as an Artist & Repertoire and Marketing executive in the '90s. In the '00s he co-founded a fully-accredited artists' colony on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, MA for college-aged musicians and entrepreneurs, and currently entertains fantasies of a restless retirement in Montmartre-on-the-Cumberland, Tennessee.

Willett's work has been cited in "Rolling Stone," "Billboard," "Musician," the "L.A. Times," "Entertainment Weekly," "CMJ" and the "Hollywood Reporter," while his articles encouraging excellence in music making and marketing have appeared in "Image," "The Wittenburg Door," "CCM," "Release," "The Other Side" and "Prism." He has published 11 books and digital documents including Creativity Will Save the World: Toward a Spiritual Humanism; A Curmudgeon's Guide to Virtue & Religion, Vol. 1; A Curmudgeon's Guide to Vice & Immorality, Vol. 2; Van Gogh to Go, Vol. 1-Art; Van Gogh to Go, Vol. 2-Work; Van Gogh to Go, Vol. 3-Spirituality; Stroke: The Road To Recovery; Understanding Stroke Terminology (all of which are available at https: //www.amazon.com/Tom-Willett/e/B00WL9LULQ); and the digital publications Into the Mystic: Music Photography & Philosophic Musings (https: //tomwillett.blogspot.com/); The Nicholas Berdyaev Online Resource Center (https: //www.nicholasberdyaev.com) and www.willett.world.
ISBN9798218861018
Author Vincent Van Gogh
PublisherAlva Addison
GenreBiography, Religion & spirituality, and Arts
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages510
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland. He became an assistant with an international firm of art-dealers and in 1881 he went to Brussels to study art. After an unsuccessful love affair with his cousin he returned to Holland and in 1885 he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, a haunting scene of domestic poverty. A year later his brother Theo, an art dealer, enabled him to study in Paris, where he met Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, who became very important influences on his work. In 1888 he left Paris for the Provençal landscape at Arles, the subject of many of his best works, including "Sunflowers" and "The Chair and the Pipe." It was here Van Gogh cut off his ear, in remorse for threatening Gauguin with a razor during a quarrel, and he was placed in an asylum for a year. On July 7, 1890 Van Gogh shot himself at the scene of his last painting, the foreboding "Cornfields with Flight of Birds," and he died two days later. Ronald de Leeuw has been the director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since 1986. He trained as an art historian at the universities of Los Angeles, California, and of Leiden, The Netherlands. As a specialist in nineteenth-century painting, he has been responsible for numerous exhibitions in The Netherlands and abroad, including the 1990 Vincent Van Gogh Centennial retrospective in Amsterdam. Since 1990 Ronald de Leeuw has also directed the Museum Mesdag in The Hague, known for its fine Barbizon and Hague School holdings. In 1994 he was appointed professor extraordinary in the history of collecting at the Free University of Amsterdam. Arnold Pomerans was born in 1920 and was educated in South Africa. He emigrated to England in 1948, and from 1948 to 1955 taught physics in London. In 1955 he became a full-time translator and has had just under two hundred major works issued by leading British and US publishers. Among the authors translated by him are Louis de Broglie, Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud, George Grosz, Jan Huizinga, Jean Piaget and Jules Romain.

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