For Art and for Life by Vincent Van Gogh - ISBN: 9780241752463
Paperback
Van Gogh’s soul laid bare: art, life, and the starry night.

For Art and for Life

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2025

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Summary

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Few artists’ letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh’s. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The Starry Night, the letters in this selection paint an intense personal narrative of his artistic development and creative process across the years. They reveal a man of great spiritual and emotional depths who - in his own words - …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241752463
ISBN-10:0241752469
Author:Vincent Van Gogh
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:15 July 2025
Weight:104g
Dimensions:183mm x 110mm x 12mm
Series:Penguin Archive
About The Author

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work has had far-reaching influence on 20th-century art and beyond. Born to upper middle-class parents, he trained to become a pastor, and did not start painting until his twenties, travelling to The Hague, London, Paris and, famously, Arles. Most of his best-known works were completed during the last two years of his life. Van Gogh suffered from poor mental health and spent over a year in an asylum. On 27 July 1890, he shot himself at the scene of his last painting, the foreboding Cornfields with Flight of Birds. He died two days later.

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