Gauguin Tahiti / George T.M. Shackelford and Claire Fréches-Thory, with additional essays by Isabelle Cahn [and others].
The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and "Sunday painter," he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life "in ecstasy, in peace, and for art." Gauguin Tahiti, the first major retros...
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Boston, MA :
MFA Publications,
[2004]
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| Summary: | The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and "Sunday painter," he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life "in ecstasy, in peace, and for art." Gauguin Tahiti, the first major retrospective of the artists work in fifteen years, offers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter. Alongside essays by leading American and French critics on every aspect of Gauguins art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics, and innovative graphic works, are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture, and religion that helped shape them; an in-depth biographical narrative of the artists life, with the many epiphanies, frustrations, and discoveries that make his time in the South Seas one of the most mythologically potent episodes in the history of Western art; and a chronicle of his changing fortunes in the century since his death. At the center of it all is Gauguins 1897 masterpiece, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, the summation and crowning glory of his mature career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority. Over one hundred years later, Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of 19th-century art, the very pivot of modernism, and Gauguin Tahiti finally portrays this crucial period of his life in all its color and drama. |
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| Item Description: | "Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin Tahiti," organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."--Title page verso. Exhibition held September 30 2003-January 19, 2004 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 29-June 20, 2004. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 371 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0878466665 9780878466665 0878466673 9780878466672 |