Gauguin; Maker of Myth
2010réf. 87490Princeton University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 256 pages; 252 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; This major reevaluation of Paul Gauguin presents the artist and his work in an entirely new light. The vivid unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of Gauguin's paintings and the strong semiabstract quality of his woodcuts had a profound effect on the development of twentieth-century art. Here readers will discover why Gauguin was one of the most important artists behind European modernism--yet one who also challenged its very tenets. Because while modern art largely rejected narrative for Gauguin it remained central. Gauguin is the first book to fully examine his use of stories and myth to give powerful narrative tension to his paintings at a time when other painters thought storytelling was dead. Gauguin's life in French Polynesia is often portrayed as a quest for the other with the artist as the romantic explorer encountering primitive cultures for the first time. In fact he was deeply immersed in world art and a great reader of Polynesian stories and myths. This book cuts through the mystique surrounding Gauguin--one the artist himself cultivated--to show how he self-mythologized presenting himself to the world as a suffering Christ-like figure. Stunningly illustrated and unprecedented in scope Gauguin features more than 200 museum-quality reproductions of paintings works on paper ceramics woodcarvings and writings including Gauguin's beautifully illustrated letters and books. Exhibition Schedule: Tate Modern London</br></br>September 30 2010 - January 16 2011 National Gallery of Art Washington</br></br>February 27 - June 5 2011 . 2010. 0691148864 . Princeton University Press hardcover
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