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Love of Many Things, The - A Life of Vincent Van Gogh by David Sweetman |
Vincent's story is so well known that a biography might seem almost superfluous but this one must be as near definitive as possible separating, through scrupulous scholarship, fact from myth, especially in the years before he decided to 'live to paint',. Without his outstanding output his short life could be classified as a tragic mess. His paintings transform tragedy into triumph. So does this book help us to understand Vincent's vision? Most decidedly, it does.
(James Baker - bwl 26 October 2004 ) |
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