Gauguin and Polynesia

2024-02-01 Art

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Release : 2024-02-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gauguin and Polynesia written by Nicholas Thomas. This book was released on 2024-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour, and his paintings, have been considered exploitative. Gauguin and Polynesia offers a fresh view on the artist, not from the perspective of European art history, but from the contemporary vantage point of the region – Oceania – which he so famously moved to. Gauguin's art is revealed, for the first time, to be richer and more eclectic than has been recognised. The artist indeed did invent enigmatic and symbolic images, but he also depicted Polynesia's colonial modernity, acknowledging the life of the time and the dignity and power of some of the Islanders he encountered. Gauguin and Polynesia neither celebrates nor condemns an extraordinary painter, who at times denounced and at other times affirmed the French empire that shaped his own life and the places he moved between. It is a revelation, of a formative artist of modern life, and of multicultural worlds in the making.

Gauguin Tahiti

2004 French Polynesia

Author : George T. M. Shackelford
Release : 2004
Genre : French Polynesia
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Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gauguin Tahiti written by George T. M. Shackelford. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has over 250 colour illustrations, documentary photographs and essays by leading critics illuminate every aspect of Gauguin’s art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works. There are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape the art; an in-depth narrative of the artist’s life, with its many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries; and a chronicle of the changing fortunes of his reputation in the century since his death.

Gauguin, Polynesia

2011 Art, French

Author : Paul Gauguin
Release : 2011
Genre : Art, French
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Book Rating : 617/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Gauguin, Polynesia written by Paul Gauguin. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evolution of this fascinating encounter between European and Polynesian culture also focuses on the larger development of art in the Pacific in the era following its first European contact. Twelve insightful and original essays about Paul Gauguin and Polynesia, written by eminent scholars in the field of art history and ethnology, present the development of Polynesian art before and after Gauguin's stay in Polynesia at the end of the 19th century. The book presents over 60 works by Paul Gauguin, fully revealing the extent of the influence of Polynesian art and culture on his work, while also highlighting more than 60 works from the Pacific that exemplify the dynamic exchanges of Pacific Island peoples with Europeans throughout the 19th century."--Publisher's website.

Paradise Reviewed

1983 Art

Author : Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk
Release : 1983
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Paradise Reviewed written by Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Noa Noa

2005-03-10 Art

Author : Paul Gauguin
Release : 2005-03-10
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 411/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Noa Noa written by Paul Gauguin. This book was released on 2005-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1894, Paul Gauguin came to the conclusion that European culture in general, and French culture in particular, was spiritually and morally bankrupt. So he left. On the eighth of June that same year, he arrived in Tahiti, an island of tropical warmth, impenetrable jungles, and - most importantly for Gauguin - unspoiled, undecadent, un-European, and extremely beautiful people." "He luxuriated in this paradise for two years, producing some of his most skillful and best-known paintings, as well as a more personal masterpiece: his journal and the woodblocks he made to accompany it. In his Tahiti diary, Gauguin wrote affectionately about the majestic and earthy people he met." "In 1896, he abruptly returned to France, where his journal was declared too racy for publication. Ultimately, he published it himself but was unable to include his powerful woodblock illustrations. In Noa Noa they appear together for the first time, accompanied by the whimsical, brightly colored sketches that Gauguin included in the margins of his journal. This collection of sensuous and intriguing illustrations is a testament to Gauguin's reverence for nature and his respect for the nobility of Tahitian society."--BOOK JACKET.

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