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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.
In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort
to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the
island's 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 artist's 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 Gauguin's 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. Distributed for
the Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Princeton
University Art Museum(09/25/10-01/02/11)
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Gauguin. Portraits (French, Hardcover)
Cornelia Homburg, Christopher Riopelle, Elizabeth Childs, Line Clausen Pedersen, Dario Gamboni, …
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The book is edited by Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle and
is being published to coincide with the exhibition of the same
title to be held at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (May
24 - September 8, 2019), and at the National Gallery in London
(October 7, 2019 - January 26, 2020). The exhibition will display
some sixty works by Gauguin - paintings, works on paper, and
three-dimensional objects made of various materials - from public
and private collections throughout the world. It is the aim of
Gauguin. Portraits to fill this gap in the scholarly examination of
one of the leading figures in Post-Impressionism. There is much to
discover about the attributes he endowed his models with and the
evocative settings he chose for them, highly charged as these props
were with symbolic meanings. This book, which is intended as a
standard text in this specific field, includes essays written by an
array of experts in Gauguin's work, all established scholars and
young researchers. University and museum specialists combine their
talents to explore in-depth the many aspects of the artist's
portraits, often in the light of the remarks he made about his
models. The authors focus in particular on the importance and
different meanings portraits had for Gauguin in his oeuvre. Text in
French.
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