For Art and for Life

<p><b>90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books<br></b><br>Few artists'' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh''s. From the humanistic inspiration behind <i>The Potato Eaters</i> to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became <i>The Starry Night, </i>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 – did everything ‘for art and for life itself’.</p>