Smoking Mirror : An Encounter with Paul Gauguin

by REES, DOUGLAS

• ISBN13: 9780823048632
• ISBN10: 0823048632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
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Summary

This second book in the Art Encounters series, based on Gauguin's "Matamoe,"r as it is commonly called, "Landscape with Peacocks," takes readers on anction-packed South Sea adventure with a young sailor, Joe Sloan. After theurder of his friend, Robert, Joe goes on a mission to find Robert'sirlfriend, a Tahitian girl named Tehane, and deliver the news personally ando avenge his friend's death. He doesn't have far to go before fate unitesim with his friend's killer, the Marquesan warrior, Gun, and his nefariousaster, a man known as the White Wolf. As Joe navigates the unknown territoryf Tahiti and its people, he finds an unlikely ally in the French artist,aul Gauguin. In the course of the story, Rees introduces the reader toauguin and his work, the artist's relationship with the Tahitian natives,nd his artistic temperament. Gauguin painted "Landscape with Peacocks" in892, while he was living in Tahiti.

Author Biography

Douglas Rees is the author of Lightning Time (0-1413-0317-4) and Vampire High (0-385-73117-5). He lives in San Jose, CA.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Artiste	1	(4)
Smoking Mirror	5	(10)
Titi	15	(8)
A Hat from Buffalo Bill	23	(10)
Tehane	33	(9)
Kwok	42	(9)
A Savage Comes to Mataiea	51	(10)
Little Friends	61	(7)
The Pink Coral Jail	68	(13)
Color and Canvas	81	(5)
Himene	86	(4)
Painting Singing	90	(8)
Titi Again	98	(7)
Tehura Poses	105	(8)
Shipmates	113	(4)
Rosewood	117	(8)
Matamoe	125	(5)
Olympia	130	(9)
Shotgun	139	(9)
The Mateata	148	(8)
Hospital	156	(5)
¡Viva!	161	(5)
Paul Gauguin's Life and Art	166	(4)
A Timeline of Gauguin's Life	170	(3)
For More Information	173