Gauguin by Himself
Author: Paul Gauguin
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780760755594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selections from Gauguin's letters, illustrating his life and work.
Author: Paul Gauguin
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780760755594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selections from Gauguin's letters, illustrating his life and work.
Author: Paul Gauguin
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780316728003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 bounds of society in order to fulfil his vocation as a 'great artist'.
Author: Belinda Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1993-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780316905275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ingo F. Walther
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9783822859865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Frenchman in Tahiti After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives--their body language, charm and beauty--had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
Author: Paul Gauguin
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gloria Lynn Groom
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0300217013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unprecedented exploration of Gauguin's works in various media, from works on paper to clay and furniture Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats--clay, works on paper, wood, and paint, as well as furniture and decorative friezes--this volume delves into his enduring interest in craft and applied arts, reflecting on their significance to his creative process. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist draws on extensive new research into the artist's working methods, presenting him as a consummate craftsman--one whose transmutations of the ordinary yielded new and remarkable forms. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book includes essays by an international team of scholars who offer a rich analysis of Gauguin's oeuvre beyond painting. By embracing other art forms, which offered fewer dominant models to guide his work, Gauguin freed himself from the burden of artistic precedent. In turn, these groundbreaking creative forays, especially in ceramics, gave new direction to his paintings. The authors' insightful emphasis on craftsmanship deepens our understanding of Gauguin's considerable achievements as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, ceramist, and printmaker within the history of modern art.
Author: Lesley Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781840132311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Paul Gauguin is almost as well known for his bohemian life, his flight from what he called 'the disease of civilization', as for his exotic painting ...
Author: B. Thompson
Publisher: Orbit Books
Published: 1992-11-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780356203492
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