Gauguin Tahiti / George T.M. Shackelford and Claire Fréches-Thory, with additional essays by Isabelle Cahn ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: Boston, MA : MFA Publications, c2004.Description: viii, 371 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: - 0878466665
- 0878466673 (softcover)
- 9780878466665
- 9780878466672 (softcover)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and "Sunday painter," he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life "in ecstasy, in peace, and for art." Gauguin Tahiti , the first major retrospective of the artist's work in fifteen years, offers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter. Alongside essays by leading American and French critics 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 of the artist's life, with the many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries that make his time in the South Seas one of the most mythologically potent episodes in the history of 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 summation and crowning glory of his mature career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority. Over one hundred years later, Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of 19th-century art, the very pivot of modernism, and Gauguin Tahiti finally portrays this crucial period of his life in all its color and drama.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin Tahiti," organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."--T.p. verso.
Exhibition held September 30 2003-January 19, 2004 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 29-June 20, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / George T.M. Shackelford -- I. The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893 -- The paintings of the First Polynesian Sojourn / Claire Freches-Thory -- Gauguin: artist and ethnographer / Philippe Peltier -- Sculpture of the First Voyage / Anne Pingeot -- II. The Return to France, August 1893-June 1895 -- The exhibition at Durant-Ruel / Claire Frèches-Thory -- Noa Noa: the voyage to Tahiti / Isabelle Cahn -- "Shapes and harmonies of another world" / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- Oviri / Anne Pingeot -- III. The Second Polynesian Sojourn, September 1895-May 1903 -- The return to paradise: Tahiti, 1895-1897 / George T.M. Shackelford -- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / George T.M. Shackelford -- "I have everything a modest artist could wish" / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- "Catholicism and the modern mind": the painter as writer in late career / Elizabeth C. Childs -- Splendor and misery: Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands / George T.M. Shackelford -- IV: After 1903 -- The House of Pleasure / Anne Pingeot -- Koké and Tépéva: Victor Segalen in Gauguin's footsteps / Gilles Manceron -- Belated recognition: Gauguin and France in the twentieth century, 1903-1949 / Isabelle Cahn -- V. Appendixes -- Gauguin in the Vollard Archives / Suzanne Diffre, Marie-Josèphe Lesieur -- Chronology of Gauguin's life, 1848-1903 / Isabelle Cahn, Gloria Groom.