Gauguin and Maori Art

Gauguin and Maori Art
Title Gauguin and Maori Art PDF eBook
Author Bronwen Nicholson
Publisher Godwit
Pages 84
Release 1995
Genre Art
ISBN

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In August 1895 Paul Gauguin spent ten days in Auckland, en route to Tahiti for the second and final time. During his stay he visited the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland Museum, and recorded in a sketchbook details of some of the fine Maori carvings he observed. When Gauguin left Auckland he took with him a small but vital collection of new images, several of which were later to appear in major paintings. Gauguin and Maori Art is published to coincide with the centenary of Gauguin's visit to Auckland. For the first time the complete sketchbook is reproduced, alongside photographs of the Maori carvings Gauguin sketched and the paintings which demonstrate the significance of Gauguin's first-hand encounter with Maori art.

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin
Title Paul Gauguin PDF eBook
Author Douglas W. Druick
Publisher
Pages 55
Release 1995
Genre Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)
ISBN 9780864632029

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Gauguin

Gauguin
Title Gauguin PDF eBook
Author Gloria Lynn Groom
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 336
Release 2017-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0300217013

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An unprecedented exploration of Gauguin's works in various media, from works on paper to clay and furniture Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats--clay, works on paper, wood, and paint, as well as furniture and decorative friezes--this volume delves into his enduring interest in craft and applied arts, reflecting on their significance to his creative process. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist draws on extensive new research into the artist's working methods, presenting him as a consummate craftsman--one whose transmutations of the ordinary yielded new and remarkable forms. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book includes essays by an international team of scholars who offer a rich analysis of Gauguin's oeuvre beyond painting. By embracing other art forms, which offered fewer dominant models to guide his work, Gauguin freed himself from the burden of artistic precedent. In turn, these groundbreaking creative forays, especially in ceramics, gave new direction to his paintings. The authors' insightful emphasis on craftsmanship deepens our understanding of Gauguin's considerable achievements as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, ceramist, and printmaker within the history of modern art.

Gauguin’s Challenge

Gauguin’s Challenge
Title Gauguin’s Challenge PDF eBook
Author Norma Broude
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 337
Release 2018-03-08
Genre Art
ISBN 1501325175

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Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as “the father of modernist primitivism.” In this volume, both long-established and more recent Gauguin scholars offer a provocative picture of the evolution of Gauguin scholarship in the recent postmodern era, as they confront and consider how the dismantling of the longstanding Gauguin myth positions us now in the 21st century to deal with and assess the life, work, and legacy of this still perennially popular artist. To reassess the challenges that Gauguin faced in his own day as well as those that he continues to present to current and future scholarship, they explore the multiple contexts that influenced Gauguin's thought and behavior as well as his art and incorporate a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from anthropology, philosophy, and the history of science to gender studies and the study of Pacific cultural history. Dealing with a wide range of Gauguin's production, they challenge conventional art-historical thinking, highlight transnational perspectives, and offer clues to the direction of future scholarship, as audiences worldwide seek to make multicultural peace with Gauguin and his art. Broude has raised the bar of Gauguin scholarship ever higher in this groundbreaking volume, which will be necessary reading for students and scholars of art history, late 19th-century French and Pacific culture, gender studies, and beyond.

Noa Noa

Noa Noa
Title Noa Noa PDF eBook
Author Paul Gauguin
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 1920
Genre Painters
ISBN

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The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin

The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin
Title The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin PDF eBook
Author Henri Dorra
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 370
Release 2007-02-20
Genre Art
ISBN 0520241304

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"Modern Gauguin studies—complex interpretations of the works based on the identification of the artist's sources in ancient sacred art from around the world—began in the early 1950s with the pioneering research of Bernard Dorival and Henri Dorra. The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Humanity, Dorra's ultimate meditation on the art of Gauguin, constitutes a milestone in the history of Post-Impressionism."—Charles Stuckey is an independent scholar and consultant

In Pursuit of Venus

In Pursuit of Venus
Title In Pursuit of Venus PDF eBook
Author Lisa Reihana
Publisher
Pages
Release 2015-07
Genre
ISBN 9780864633019

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"To accompany the exhibition of the new multi-media work by artist Lisa Reihana in Pursuit of Venus (infected) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki"--Publisher information.