Gauguin by Himself Handbook by Belinda Thomson

Gauguin by Himself Handbook by Belinda Thomson

GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF is the first publication to give equal weight to the full range of Gauguin's activities both as an artist and a writer. His letters, including many to fellow painters such as Pissarro and Van Gogh, comment freely on contemporaries such as Cezanne, Monet and Degas, and meet head on the changing aesthetic concerns of avant-garde Paris in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. They also chart his increasingly hazardous travels around the globe in pursuit of his elusive idea of the 'primitive' from Paris and Copenhagen to Brittany, Provence, Panama, the West Indies and finally the South Pacific. Illustrated with over 200 of his most powerful and decorative works of art, GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF offers a fresh look at the diverse faces and talents of a man who chose to live outside the bounds of society in order to fulfil his vocation as a 'great artist'.

Belinda Thomson is an art historian whose specialist interest is nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art.

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ISBN 13	9780316728003
ISBN 10	0316728004
Title	Gauguin by Himself Handbook
Author	Belinda Thomson
Series	By Himself Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2004-05-06
Number of pages	224
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