Tekijä: Bruce Prideaux; Dallen Timothy; Kaye Chon Kustantaja: Taylor & Francis Ltd (2007) Saatavuus: | Arvioimme, että tuote lähetetään meiltä noin 1-3 viikossa
Tekijä: Bruce Prideaux; Dallen Timothy; Kaye Chon Kustantaja: Taylor & Francis Ltd (2009) Saatavuus: | Arvioimme, että tuote lähetetään meiltä noin 1-3 viikossa
Faber & Faber Sivumäärä: 416 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Painos: Main Julkaisuvuosi: 2024, 12.09.2024 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.
*Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images*
'Thoughtful and knowledgeable, witty and bold . . . A scintillating account of a richly complicated life.' LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.
In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia.
Prideaux conjures Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.