Gauguin The Quest for Paradise (New Horizons) /anglais - Couverture souple

Cachin, Françoise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500300070 ISBN 13 : 9780500300077

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

The works of Gaugin, and the story of his bohemian exploits.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

We have waited a long time for a work on Gauguin that truly increases our awareness of both the man and his oeuvre, for the painter's uniquely romantic life bas all too often obscured his infinitely more fascinating career as an artist. Anyone, whether they have previous knowledge of Gauguin or not, will find that his paintings are enriched by this book, for the intentions that lay behind every painting, sculpture or drawing that Gauguin produced are as important to the understanding of his art as is our appreciation of the results.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Françoise Cachin traces the evolution of Gauguin's theories on art and the technique of painting step by step, from his earliest days as a self-taught Sunday painter to his last masterpieces painted in the South Seas, underlining their importance for the development of modem art. She places the artist's work in the context of his life, quoting from his copious correspondence and other writings to show how his painting was affected by what was going on around him-from the artistic and intellectual effervescence of his contemporaries to his personal tragedies. Insightful analyses of the works that marked important stages in the progress of Gauguin's art complement the main text.

This study of Gauguin's life-long search for the primitive, which led him from Brittany to the Marquesas Islands, recounts his break with the Impressionists, which was a profession of faith, in the pre-eminence of intellectual associations in art over to the passive receptivity of the eye, his involvement with the Neo-Impressionists, the development of Cloisonnism, which resulted in Gauguin's treatment of forms in flat areas of colour, his associations with the young Symbolist writers of the day, and finally his rejection of any intellectual influence whatsoever at the end of his life. His source of inspiration in other painters (Degas, Cézanne, Puvis de Chavannes) and other cultures (Egyptian, pre-Colombian, Japanese) is care-fully traced and copiously illustrated.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500300070
• ISBN 13: 9780500300077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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