The Little Book of Gaugin - Couverture souple

Cahn, Isabelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 208011168X ISBN 13 : 9782080111685

Editeur : Flammarion, 2003

Synopsis

In a pocket guide featuring many well-known works of Gauguin the savage, famed for his escape to the South Seas, a Mus e d'Orsay archivist traces the themes and evolution of his art and career. Distributed by Rizzoli. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Isabelle Cahn is an archivist at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and co-authored Cezanne (Abrams, 1996), as well as books on Renoir; Manet, Maillol, and 19th-century Art in her native France.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Born in Paris in 1848, Gauguin spent a substantial part of his childhood in Peru before joining the merchant marine in his late teens and traveling around the Southern hemisphere. A taste for colorful exotic places acquired during these formative years would become characteristic of his painting. While Gauguin's work initially followed that of his Impressionist contemporaries, he would later radically break away from this style, to become a figure-head of Symbolism, a movement aiming to give visual expression to the mystical and occult. Gauguin's originality in being one of the first to seek inspiration in the arts of ancient or primitive peoples, as well as his extraordinary influence and role as precursor of artistic movements such as Fauvism and Nabism, are now undisputed. Yet during his lifetime he was plagued by both poverty and illness, and few would have seconded his own self-assessment: "I am a great artist and I know it. It is because I am that I have endured such suffering." Illustrated in full color throughout, this informative and entertaining reference book pays tribute to one of the greatest post-impressionist painters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flammarion
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 208011168X
• ISBN 13: 9782080111685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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