The Twelve Apostles by Anthea Fraser

The Twelve Apostles by Anthea Fraser

The painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin, intended as the painter's final artistic testimony, is the inspiration and framework for this book. In one way, The Gauguin Answer Sheet focuses on the intricate details of the painting and offers its lush Tahitian landscape and characters--a black dog, a pair of conspirators, a shy woman, a pleading goddess, and a crouching mummy, among many others. In another sense, Dennis Finnell deeply probes the underlying implications--and personal associations--the painting offers.

The poem's own questions, suggested by those in the painting's title, are concerned with origins, identities, and futures--of the poet and others. Finnell reflects on the plight of the characters portrayed in Gauguin's painting and imagines their thoughts and feelings about life in the world outside. Along with his ruminations on these imagined characters, Finnell visits his own family history, reflecting on the lives of earlier generations, to affirm the shared nature of each individual's origins and identities. Through his poetry, time and space, painting and history, and imagination and reality interconnect and offer an unusually imaginative, surprising work of art.

Fraser, Anthea: - Anthea Fraser has now written a number of books ranging from suspense to the paranormal and crime fiction. The Ties That Bind is Anthea's fifty-first book.

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ISBN 13	9780727854940
ISBN 10	0727854941
Titel	The Twelve Apostles
Autor	Anthea Fraser
Serie	Chief Inspector Webb Series
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Canongate Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-11-26
Seitenanzahl	224
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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