Gauguin by Himself - Hardcover

Paul Gaugin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0785808620 ISBN 13: 9780785808626

Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc, 2001

Synopsis

A striking volume provides rare insight into Gauguin's tumultuous life and his activities as a writer and an artist, featuring more than two hundred works of art and many letters written to his family and fellow artists, including Pissaro and Van Gogh.

About this title

About the Author:

Belinda Thomson is an art historian whose specialist interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French art.

From Library Journal:

This volume traces the career of Paul Gauguin through the wide variety of his artistic works on the one hand and his writings on the other. To begin the book, editor Thomson ( Gauguin , Thames & Hudson, 1987) provides a useful introduction, then examines the artist's career, which she divides into four stages. Gauguin attached great importance to writing, which became for him an alternate means of creative expression. Mainly through letters, many translated for the first time, we learn of his views of the world, of his art, and of the works of his contemporary artists. The volume is handsomely produced; the quality of the reproductions is very good. This volume should be included in every serious art library.
- Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0785808620
• ISBN 13: 9780785808626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Belinda Thomson
• Illustrator: Paul Gaugin