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Gauguin's Paradise Remembered; The Noa Noa Prints

2010réf. 87491Museum; Yale University Press Distribution . New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 136 pages; 82 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; In 1891 Paul Gauguin 18481903 traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island’s exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered his works from this period nonetheless celebrate the myth of an untainted Tahitian idyll a myth he continued to perpetuate upon his return to Paris. He created a travel journal entitled Noa Noa fragrant scent a largely fictionalized account that recalled his immersion into the spiritual world of the South Seas. To illustrate his text Gauguin turned for the first time to the woodcut medium creating a series of ten dark and brooding prints that he intended to publish alongside his journala publication that was never realized. The woodcuts crystallized important themes from his work and are the focus of this major new study. Gauguin's Paradise Remembered addresses both the artist’s representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on his artistic practice. Through its combined sense of immediacy in the apparent directness of the printing process and distance through the mechanical repetition of motifs the woodcut offered Gauguin the ideal medium to depict a paradise whose real attraction lay in its remaining always unattainable. With two insightful essays this book posits that Gauguin’s Noa Noa prints allowed him to convey his deeply Symbolist conception of his Tahitian experience while continuing his experiments with reproductive processes and other technical innovations that engaged him at the time. . 2010. 0300149298 . Museum; Yale University Press (Distribution) paperback

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