Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Designed in collaboration with Ian Barnard & Stefan Kunz, the Letter Builder perfect notebook for practicing your technique and becoming a better lettering artist – now paired with the ultimate hand lettering pens and pencils. The artists write of their anxieties about work, health, finances, and their future plans. THE EKPHRASIS SERIES is specially dedicated to publishing out-of-print, rare, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. Explore other titles form the ekphrasis collection. An anguished Emile Bernard describes to art critic Albert Aurier, as Paul Gauguin recounted it to him, the night Vincent vanGogh cut off his own ear. This fascinating book’s combination of deeply personal letters alongside rough sketches and finished paintings gives an intimate insight into the painter’s domestic life in Arles and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, his spiritual torment and the creative process. "Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. The text of the book explores each writers' relationships with the recipients and with other artists they mention, and a precise examination of each artists's place in the history of art. Simple add the work to your basket and then choose your framing options here. Martin Bailey's introduction provides essential background information about Vincent's early life, setting the period in Provence in perspective.

• A5 Letter Builder Notebook
• 160 pages
• Dimensions: 26 x 2 x 20 cm
• Tombow Fudenosuke Calligraphy Brush Pen - Black, Soft Tip
• Publisher: Batsford