This seventh book in a series which examines the lives of individual artists through their correspondence gives equal weight to Gauguin's activities as both a writer and an artist. It offers insight into his enigmatic, often uncompromising character, and traces the complex development of his art from hesitant Impressionism to the striking colour and powerful forms of his Tahitian work. Gauguin's letters, including many addressed to other painters including Pissarro and Van Gogh, comment freely on contemporaries such as Degas, Monet and Cezanne, and chart his increasingly hazardous travels around the globe in pursuit of his elusive ideal of the "primitive". The book is illustrated with more than 240 of the artist's most powerful works.
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This volume traces the career of Paul Gauguin through the wide variety of his artistic works on the one hand and his writings on the other. To begin the book, editor Thomson ( Gauguin , Thames & Hudson, 1987) provides a useful introduction, then examines the artist's career, which she divides into four stages. Gauguin attached great importance to writing, which became for him an alternate means of creative expression. Mainly through letters, many translated for the first time, we learn of his views of the world, of his art, and of the works of his contemporary artists. The volume is handsomely produced; the quality of the reproductions is very good. This volume should be included in every serious art library.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Belinda Thomson is an art historian whose specialist interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art.
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- Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin by Paul Gauguin on 8 pages
- Still Life by American Federation Of Art on 4 pages
- Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin by Christopher Gray in Back Matter
- Fiftteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the the Robert Lehman Collection, Vol. 7: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann in Back Matter
- The Royal Collection: Thematic Exploration of the Queen's Pictures by Christopher Lloyd in Front Matter
- Van Gogh And Gauguin: Electric Arguments And Utopian Dreams (Icon Editions) by Bradley Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams by Bradley Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Art Theory: An Historical Introduction by Robert Williams in Back Matter
- The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford in Back Matter
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