GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF is the first publication to give equal weight to the full range of Gauguin's activities both as an artist and a writer. His letters, including many to fellow painters such as Pissarro and Van Gogh, comment freely on contemporaries such as Cezanne, Monet and Degas, and meet head-on the changing aesthetic concerns of avant-garde Paris in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. They also chart his increasingly hazardous travels around the globe in pursuit of his elusive idea of the 'primitive' from Paris and Copenhagen to Brittany, Provence, Panama, the West Indies and finally the South Pacific. Illustrated with over 200 of his most powerful and decorative works of art, GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF offers a fresh look at the diverse faces and talents of a man who chose to live outside the boundaries of society in order to fulfil his vocation as a 'great artist'.
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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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