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9780878466672

Gauguin Tahiti

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  • ISBN13:

    9780878466672

  • ISBN10:

    0878466673

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-01-31
  • Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Summary

Now in paperback, Gauguin Tahitioffers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter. Alongside essays on every aspect of Gauguin's art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works, are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape them; an in-depth biographical narrative, with the many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries that make his time in the South Seas one of the most mythologically potent episodes in Western art; and a chronicle of his changing fortunes in the century since his death. At the center of it all is Gauguin's 1897 masterpiece, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?," the crowning glory of his mature career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority. Over 100 years later, Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of nineteenth-century art, the very pivot of modernism, and Gauguin Tahitiportrays this crucial period of his life in all its color and drama. Of the hardback edition, John Richardson wrote in Vanity Fair: "This excellent catalogue sets the record straight." And writing in the New York Observer, Hilton Kramer declared it, "the most exhaustive account of the period that has ever been attempted in a single survey... well-written, scrupulously documented, and lavishly illustrated."

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Introduction
The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893p. 15
The Paintings of the First Polynesian Sojournp. 17
Gauguin: Artist and Ethnographerp. 47
Sculpture of the First Voyagep. 67
The Return to France, August 1893-June 1895p. 81
The Exhibition at Durand-Ruelp. 83
Noa Noa: The Voyage to Tahitip. 91
"Shapes and Harmonies of Another World"p. 115
Ovirip. 135
The Second Polynesian Sojourn, September 1895-May 1903p. 143
The Return to Paradise: Tahiti, 1895-1897p. 145
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?p. 167
"I Have Everything a Modest Artist Could Cold Wish"p. 205
"Catholicism and the Modern Mind": The Painter as Writer in Late Careerp. 223
Splendor and Misery: Gauguin in the Marquesas Islandsp. 243
After 1903p. 261
The House of Pleasurep. 263
Koke and Tepeva: Victor Segalen in Gauguin's Footstepsp. 273
Belated Recognition: Gauguin and France in the Twentieth Century, 1903-1949p. 285
Appendixesp. 303
Gauguin in the Vollard Archivesp. 305
Notesp. 312
Chronology of Gauguin's Life, 1848-1903p. 340
Checklist and Figure Illustrationsp. 350
Index to Works by Gauguinp. 365
Subject Indexp. 368
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