Vincent van Gogh is known primarily as a painter, but his surviving letters form a substantial body of writing about art, work, family, books and the practical difficulties of an artist's life. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, available in various selected and complete editions, includes extensive correspondence with his brother Theo as well as letters to other artists and relatives. Van Gogh discusses painting methods, colour, materials, money, exhibitions, reading and his changing responses to landscapes and people in the Netherlands and France. Because the letters were written across many years rather than designed as a single book, editions differ considerably in selection, annotation and translation. They fit artists' letters, art history and biography through primary documents more than conventional autobiography. Readers interested in his painting benefit most from an edition that reproduces sketches and dates the letters alongside works in progress, making the correspondence useful as a record of artistic development rather than retrospective legend. Read more Less
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