It’s extraordinary that I should have been given your letter now, because it is exactly that act of breaking that has been on my mind this last year, and which I feel has everything to do with how I want to make art, and how I want to live. You write about fear: Fear of the blank canvas, but also, on a larger scale, of the “infinitely meaningless, discouraging blank side” that life itself always turns toward us, and which can only be countered when a person “steps in and does something,” when he “breaks” or “violates.” Her piece is part of an exhibition by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, in which twenty-three contemporary artists and writers respond to the letters of Van Gogh in paintings, sculptures, letters, poems, photographs, and videos. That transcendence of the pattern is what novelist Nicole Krauss explores in an exquisite response to Vincent van Gogh’s 1884 letter to his brother about fear and risk-taking. To keep repeating a baleful pattern without recognizing that we are caught in its loop is one of life’s greatest tragedies to recognize it but feel helpless in breaking it is one of our greatest trials to transcend the fear of uncertainty, which undergirds all such patterns of belief and behavior, is a supreme triumph.

Sample XML files and the TEI ODD file that we used are available from that page.On Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns The introductory material was also encoded in TEI.Ī brief description of the technical procedures is given at. For each letter, an XML file contains the metadata, the original text, the translated text and the annotation. Additional material includes a glossary, a chronology of Van Gogh’s life, linked to the letters, a concordance to earlier editions of the letters and a bibliography. An extensive introduction provides background to the correspondence and explains the editorial procedures. All references to persons and works of art have been indexed. The online edition gives a new transcription in the original languages (Dutch and French), a new translation into English, extensive annotation, and illustrations for all of the works of art mentioned in the correspondence. The 903 letters and 25 related manuscripts were published both online and in a six-volume printed edition. General description: The Van Gogh Letters project published all of the extant correspondence from or to the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). TEI Encoding Guidelines used: P5 (2007-present).Host: Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands.

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