Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard by Leo Jansen, Hans Luitjen, Nienke Bakker, The Van Gogh Museum
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Book Summary Author: Hans Luitjen, Leo Jansen, Nienke Bakker, The Van Gogh Museum Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-09-18 ISBN: 0847829936 Number of pages: 384 Publisher: Rizzoli |
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Book Reviews of the Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard
Customer Review: Intriguing peek into van Gogh's world
Summary: 5 Stars
Nothing makes one feel closer to Vincent van Gogh than an encounter with one of his original letters, in an exhibition or at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It's all there in the pages he never thought the whole world would see: the tidy (but never perfect) handwriting when he's feeling relaxed, the messy handwriting when he's excited or pressed for time, the words he underlines or enlarges to make a point, the lines he squeezes in the margins as afterthoughts. Even the oftentimes neglectful grammar, as if he can't be bothered to get French accent marks right and couldn't care less about punctuation rules.
This new volume accompanies an exhibition of Vincent's letters to artist friend Émile Bernard at the Pierpont Morgan Library in NYC. It brings together facsimiles of the original manuscripts, transcriptions in the original language (French), new translations into English (revised from earlier translations), and annotations for each letter. Illustrations of van Gogh's paintings mentioned in the letters, as well as relevant artworks by Bernard, are also included, as are reproductions of the sketches van Gogh slipped in the letters to give his friend an idea of what he was working on.
Van Gogh's letters to Bernard are particularly interesting because he let his guard down in ways he tended not to do with his brother Theo. Bernard was much younger, and Vincent's tone is sometimes the helpful mentor, sometimes the bossy older brother, by turns warm, enthused, cranky, or witty. The occasional salty language may surprise as Vincent often abandons decorum with Bernard--makes you wonder what kinds of conversations they shared over absinthes in Paris before Vincent went down south!
Beautifully produced and thoroughly documented, "Painted With Words" is a must for any serious van Gogh library. This volume whets the appetite for the Van Gogh Museum's projected re-publication of van Gogh's complete correspondence in 2009. "Painted With Words" follows the same methodology and format as those volumes will and was compiled by the same curator-scholars. What a fantastic addition to van Gogh scholarship the new edition of the correspondence will be.