{"product_id":"wild-thing-book-sue-prideaux-9780571365937","title":"Wild Thing","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024  A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.  *Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images*  'Scintillating.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Phenomenal.' PROSPECT 'A vivid, revisionist picture.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Witty and bold.' LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT  Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.  In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia.  Prideaux conjures Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50305555038481,"sku":"NGR9780571365937","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50537556902161,"sku":"GOR013989022","price":13.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50705915314449,"sku":"GOR014041820","price":12.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51612454060305,"sku":"CIN0571365930G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52583251247377,"sku":"NLS9780571365937","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52800817266961,"sku":"GOR014624237","price":12.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571365930.jpg?v=1771498966","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/wild-thing-book-sue-prideaux-9780571365937","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}