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Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints - Couverture souple

Wright, Alastair; Brown, Calvin

 
9780300149296: Gauguin's Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300149298 ISBN 13 : 9780300149296
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (18481903) travelled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the islands exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered, his works from this period nonetheless celebrate the myth of an untainted Tahitian idyll, a myth he continued to perpetuate upon his return to Paris. He created a travel journal entitled Noa Noa (fragrant scent), a largely fictionalized account that recalled his immersion into the spiritual world of the South Seas. To illustrate his text, Gauguin turned for the first time to the woodcut medium, creating a series of ten dark and brooding prints that he intended to publish alongside his journal - a publication that was never realized. The woodcuts crystallized important themes from his work and are the focus of this major new study. Gauguin's Paradise Remembered addresses both the artists representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on his artistic practice. Through its combined sense of immediacy (in the apparent directness of the printing process) and distance (through the mechanical repetition of motifs), the woodcut offered Gauguin the ideal medium to depict a paradise whose real attraction lay in its remaining always unattainable. With two insightful essays, this book posits that Gauguins Noa Noa prints allowed him to convey his deeply Symbolist conception of his Tahitian experience while continuing his experiments with reproductive processes and other technical innovations that engaged him at the time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alastair Wright is University Lecturer in History of Art and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Johns College, University of Oxford. Calvin Brown is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300149298
ISBN 13 
9780300149296
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
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Personne responsable
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