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Get a F**king Job



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Get a F**king Job is a cleverly candid tale written to enchant those adults who don't mind laughing at reality.

Just because your beloved young one is finished with school, there are no guarantees about them ever finding gainful employment. At once both profane and affectionate, these comic verses highlight the honest (and sometimes brutal) truth about raising a child on the verge of adulthood. Get a F**king Job is a story for parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and all those who share responsibility for rearing a young person in today's world.

With illustrations by Vincent van Gogh, this book is beautiful from the first page to the last. Sublime, hilarious, and intended for mature audiences.


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Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Touchstone

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A literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time.

Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh the thoughtful, effervescent, and sensitive man is revealed to readers through his own voice.

This collection of letters, arranged in chronological order and written to Vincent's closest confidant, his brother and art dealer, Theo, provide a riveting narrative of van Gogh's life. The letters expose Vincent's creative process; his joy and inspiration derived from literature, Japanese art, and nature; as well as his many romantic disappointments and constant poverty. Also documented are Vincent's close relationships with fellow artists, especially Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh's tender and often ebullient letters provide a sharp contrast to the devastating and frequently violent mental breakdowns that plagued and eventually destroyed him.

Collected and edited by art historian Mark Roskill, this volume also includes a chronology, a short memoir by van Gogh's sister-in-law that fills in many of the blanks of Vincent's early years, and reproductions of selected artwork discussed in van Gogh's letters.

An epistolary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh is not just an important historical collection but also a captivating treasure.

This thorough collection of van Gogh's letters has been assembled with an artful eye and sensitivity to the artist's thinking. The result is an atypical take on Vincent van Gogh that avoids putting too much stress on his troubled mental state and too much straining by the editor to shape a narrative out of van Gogh's epistolary clues. Instead, we see the thoughtful and contemplative side of this creative genius, as well as his concern for the impact his art and life had on those people closest to him.
Vincent's Colors

Chronicle Books

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Vincent van Gogh is one of the world's most famous artists. Throughout his life, he wrote to his younger brother, Theo, about his colorful, dynamic paintings. This book pairs the artist's paintings with his own words.

Van Gogh's descriptions, arranged as a simple rhyme, introduce young readers to all the colors of the rainbowand beyond. The descriptive words combine with spectacular reproductions of many of the artist's most beloved and important works to create a perfect art book for young and old alike.

Vincent van Gogh

Ankele Publishing, LLC

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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who didn't start painting until his late twenties. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.
The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.

The van Gogh art book contains over 160 of his greatest reproductions with title and date.

Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars (Smart About Art)

Grosset & Dunlap

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"Brad" explores the ups and downs of van Gogh's life and art in this colorful report, featuring Brad's funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Starry Night.
Color Your Own Van Gogh Paintings (Dover Art Coloring Book)

Dover Publications

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Thirty meticulously rendered black-and-white drawings of van Gogh masterpieces. By referring to the accompanying full-color illustrations, you can bring alive these skillful adaptations that include Sunflowers, Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, The Church at Auvers, and many more. Captions identify each artwork.

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Russian heir fights Yale over van Gogh painting
AFP - May 21, 602
Russian heir fights Yale over van Gogh painting Telegraph.co.ukNEW HAVEN, Connecticut () — A painting Vincent van Gogh dismissed as one of his "ugliest" is today the subject of a high-stakes ownership battle between Yale University and a heir to a Russian art collector. The French Impressionist artist painted Counterclaim filed for 'Night Café' ownership

Swiss show van Gogh's landscapes in major exhibit
The Associated Press - May 19, 2009
BASEL, Switzerland, (AP) — Vincent van Gogh preferred painting portraits and figures, but it was his landscapes that sparked a revolution in art. Seventy landscapes, among them key works never seen by wide audiences, are presented in an ambitious show

Vincent in Brixton, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre - Reading Evening Post
Reading Evening Post, UK - May 21, 3949
Vincent in Brixton, Yvonne Arnaud TheatreIn Nicholas Wright's award-winning Vincent In Brixton he plays the young Van Gogh in a recreation of a little-known episode in his life when he lodged in London as an apprentice art dealer before embarking on his own tormented artistic career.

Monster Mash: Lawsuit against Warhol Foundation gets green light ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 21, 9230
Monster Mash: Lawsuit against Warhol Foundation gets green light Hideous masterpiece: Vincent van Gogh's "Night Cafe," which the painter himself described as "ugly," is the subject of a dispute between Yale University and the heir of a Russian art collector. Down Under: The Sydney Theater Company, whose artistic

[분수대] 마지막 한마디 - 중앙데일리
중앙데일리, South Korea - May 29, 2009
[분수대] 마지막 한마디Before taking his own life, Vincent van Gogh wrote, “The sadness will last forever.” Sometimes, we can understand a person's attitude towards death from his last words. Marco Polo said regretfully, “I have not told half of what I saw.