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Gauguin: Portraits (Hardcover)
Cornelia Homburg, Christopher Riopelle; Contributions by Elizabeth Childs, Dario Gamboni, Linda Goddard, …
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The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing
how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and
exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted
conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding
of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than
in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all
phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin's
portraits in a wide variety of media that includes painting, works
on paper, and sculpture, this handsomely illustrated volume is the
first focused investigation of the multifaceted ways the artist
approached the subject. Essays by a group of international experts
consider how the artist's conception of portraiture evolved as he
moved between Brittany and Polynesia. They also examine how Gauguin
infused his work with symbolic meaning by taking on different roles
like the Christ figure and the savage in his self-portraits and by
placing his models in suggestive settings with alluring attributes.
This welcome addition to the scholarship on one of the 19th
century's most innovative and controversial artists reveals
fascinating insights into the crucial role that portraiture played
in Gauguin's overall artistic practice.
An original study of Gauguin's writings, unfolding their central
role in his artistic practice and negotiation of colonial identity
As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism.
This is the first book devoted to his wide-ranging literary output,
which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and
essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics. It analyzes his
original manuscripts, some of which are richly illustrated,
reinstating them as an integral component of his art. The seemingly
haphazard, collage-like structure of Gauguin's manuscripts enabled
him to evoke the "primitive" culture that he celebrated, while
rejecting the style of establishment critics. Gauguin's writing was
also a strategy for articulating a position on the margins of both
the colonial and the indigenous communities in Polynesia; he sought
to protect Polynesian society from "civilization" but remained
implicated in the imperialist culture that he denounced. This
critical analysis of his writings significantly enriches our
understanding of the complexities of artistic encounters in the
French colonial context.
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Paul Gauguin: The Other and I
Paul Gauguin; Edited by Laura Cosendey, Fernando Oliva, Adriano Pedrosa; Text written by Norma Broude, …
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The Cubism Seminars (Paperback)
Harry Cooper; Contributions by Emily Braun, Lisa Florman, Linda Goddard, Maria Gough, …
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The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art
history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
developed the revolutionary style. This impressive collection of
essays by international experts presents new lines of inquiry,
including novel readings of individual objects or groups of works
through close visual, material, and archival analysis; detailed
studies of how Cubism related to intellectual and political
movements of the early 20th century; and accounts of crucial
moments in the reception of Cubism by curators, artists, and
critics. Generous illustrations of paintings, drawings, and
sculptures, some familiar but others virtually unknown, support
this wide range of approaches to the pioneering works of Picasso,
Braque, Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, and others. Distributed for the
National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts
This book explores interaction and competition between painting and
literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early
twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures including
Paul Gauguin, Stephane Mallarme, Pablo Picasso and Andre Gide.
Combining close visual and literary analysis with a broader
examination of critical discourse, the volume uncovers a mutual but
often contentious exchange of ideas. The author challenges habits
of periodisation, drawing attention to the links between Symbolist
and Cubist criticism. Issues such as the debate about 'literary'
painting, the role of art criticism and artists' writings, as well
as themes such as newspapers and gold, alchemy and forgery, are
shown to connect the two centuries. In examining how the rejection
of mimesis in painting affected literary responses to the visual
arts, the book explores a shift in power from the verbal to the
visual in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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