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The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh. Remembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, Vincent van Gogh is today one of the best-known painters. Though his career as a painter spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today his paintings sell for countless millions, yet during his lifetime, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting.

“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of the following letters, some were addressed to his brother and the remainder to his friend E. Bernard. (Summary from Preface)

La vita di Vincent van Gogh.Una produzione originale de La Setta dei poeti estinti.Voce narrante: Emilio Fabio TorselloBibliografia: Giordano Bruno Guerri, "Follia. Vita di Vincent van Gogh", Bompiani.

Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of Henri Nouwen's literary estate, she has written this book, which includes unpublished material recorded from Nouwen's lectures. As an art educator, Berry is uniquely situated to develop Nouwen's work on Vincent van Gogh and to add her own research. She fills in background on the much misunderstood spiritual context of van Gogh's work, and reinterprets van Gogh's art in light of Nouwen's lectures.

"Invece di cercare di rendere esattamente ciò che ho davanti agli occhi, mi servo del colore in modo più arbitrario per esprimermi con intensità." Così parla Van Gogh della sua arte. Notte stellata è una rielaborazione di spunti reali, ricordi e immaginazione che crea esiti di sorprendente originalità.

Autoritratto con cappello di feltro è uno dei quadri più famosi di Vincent Van Gogh. Fa parte della cospicua produzione di autoritratti ai quali l'artista affida un tentativo di dialogo che non può, né riesce, a intraprendere con nessun altro se non con se stesso, uno strenuo tentativo di fuoriuscire dalla solitudine esistenziale che pare essere senza scampo. Egli cerca nella figura riflessa attraverso lo specchio le ragioni più profonde della propria sofferenza, fino a imprimerle indelebilmente sulla tela.