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An introduction to the work of Gauguin.

Alan Bowness

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Price: USD$11.95

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Overview

One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art
This volume on Gaugin contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations
Provides incomparable value
Highly regarded for its insight and authority

Specifications

Paperback
English
305 x 225 mm, 12 x 8 7/8 in
128 pp
50 colour illustrations, 36 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714826837
ISBN-10: 0714826839

About the book

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most formidable artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth century. He began as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a more two-dimensional, richly-coloured style in his constant search for a ‘lost paradise’ untouched by nineteenth-century civilization. Gauguin’s romantic and tragic life story is mirrored in the works in this outstanding anthology. Included are 48 full-page colour plates, not only of his best known, beautiful , atmospheric paintings of Tahiti in which Gauguin attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works which reflect the artist’s contact with other early modern masters – Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne.

Art historian Lesley Stevenson has written an informative, clear commentary to accompany each colour plate.

In The Press

'Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers.' (Independent)

About the author(s)

Sir Alan Bowness was Director of the Tate Gallery until 1988.