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- Sketches that allow you to see the changes in Van Gogh's painting style from his early to late periods at a glance.
Q&A. For those who are wondering if this book is right for them.
01. I like Van Gogh, but won't a collection of letters be boring?
Instead of simply listing the letters, we created a rhythm for reading with the flow of seven parts, introductions, quotes, and sketches. Even if you read one letter at a time, Van Gogh's life and thoughts naturally connect.
02. Will it feel new even to those who have read a lot about Van Gogh?
Before his life and completed works, you first encounter the thoughts before the paintings and the people who first received his letters. This book looks at the familiar Van Gogh from a different order and distance.
03. Can people who are not familiar with art history or Van Gogh understand it?
This is not a book that requires prior knowledge of Van Gogh's life or art history. You just need to naturally follow the heart of a person who learned, wavered, loved, and started again.
04. Is this book a collection of letters, an art book, or an essay?
At its core are the actual letters and sketches left by Van Gogh. By adding the context of the times and the flow of thoughts, it is a letter book close to an essay that deeply reads one person's life.
05. Is it a self-help book that only emphasizes emotional comfort?
This is not a book that creates new answers to life or positive messages. It is a book that follows Van Gogh's actual letters and sketches to read his thoughts and uncertainties.
06. Didn't you overly idealize Van Gogh as a positive person?
We did not erase poverty, illness, anxiety, or conflict, nor did we select only hope. However, we also did not want to end a person's life with only failure, death, or sensational events.
07. Do I have to read all 528 pages from start to finish?
This is not a book that must be read in one sitting. Today, you can read one letter, and on another day, you can open it to a single sentence or sketch.
08. Is the 'That·Night·Star' - Art Story, included only in the collector's edition, really necessary?
Seeing the works of other artists mentioned by Van Gogh together with the works he completed greatly helps in understanding the letters and Van Gogh's perspective and philosophy. For reference, there has been no example in Korea of connecting the works contained in Van Gogh's letters in this way.
140Years ago,A letter that once arrived to someone else
Now arrives to us today.
Before Van Gogh's letters became the records left by a great painter, they were the heartfelt words of a wavering person sent to someone.
He was poor, he was ill, and he often failed.
But he read books again, looked at nature, thought of people, wrote letters, and picked up his brush.
We hope that Van Gogh's sentences and sketches, which arrived before his completed masterpieces, will be read in your hands like a letter.
For those going through their own night, for those who want to convey feelings they cannot fully express in words, for those who need a book that will stay by their side for a long time.
Who would you like to send this book toon someone's night?
During this Funding period,
the most completefirst collector's edition is now available.
Why Wadiz?
This book is not a projectto sell the finished book a little earlier.
For seven years, we have read the original texts, selected letters, checked sketches and materials, and woven them into a single flow.
Now, what remains is to actually print the 512-page main text, add gold edges on three sides, binding, a clamshell case, and components to complete it as a collector's edition.
This Funding is not a process of purchasing a finished general book a little earlier.
It is a process where, through readers' participation, we decide the quantity and specifications for the first production of the 512-page main book, gold edges on three sides, clamshell case, and expanded components.
Once the Funding ends, we will begin printing, binding, gold edging, and case production according to the confirmed quantity.
Therefore, the period to participate in the [Collector's Edition] and [Gift Edition] specifications, which are only available through Funding, is during this Funding period.
The regular bookstore edition will be published later, but the collector's specifications and composition of this Funding will not be continuously offered in the same form.
Through Wadiz Funding, rather than waiting for the book to be placed in regular bookstores, we wanted to check how many readers are actually waiting for this book and produce it stably according to that quantity.
We will...
- Confirm the initial production quantity,
- Proceed with printing and binding the main text,
- Produce gold edging on all three sides and the case,
- Complete the components and packaging,
- And transparently share the production process with readers.
Those who participate in the Funding are not just buyers who receive the finished product later.
You become the first readers to witness the production process and see how this book comes into the world.
The time to participate in the first production of this book isUntil the end date of the Funding.
"Nevertheless, There Are Stars in the Night Sky" ThisThe moment it first arrives in the world