Gauguin And The Origins Of Symbolism

by Solana, Guillermo; Shiff, Richard; Cogeval, Guy; Blanco, Mary Dolores Jiménez-Blanco

• ISBN13: 9780856675959
• ISBN10: 0856675954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Summary

One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of Symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza, reveals this double facet of the artist and his legacy through a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries and his pupils.

Author Biography

Guillermo Solana is Principle Lecturer of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the University Aut=noma of Madrid; Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, Department of Art and Art History, the University of Texas at Austin; Guy Cogeval is Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and Maria Dolores JimTnez-Blanco is Principle Lecturer at the Department of Humanities at the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona.

Table of Contents

Impressionism and the pastoral mode (the circle of Pissarro) * Landscape and arabesque (from Cézanne to Martinique) * Dance lessons (Gauguin and Degas) * Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bernard * The Suite Volpini * Religion, woman and myth * Gauguin's influence: experiments * Gauguin's influence: decorative ensembles * Gauguin's influence: sculpture * Prints by the Nabis artists * Gauguin and Paco Durrio, Picasso and other Spanish artists *