Gauguin : tales from paradise /

Drawing upon a selection of over 80 masterpieces, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies explore the entire career (paintings, drawings, prints, wood-carvings, ceramics) of the restless French artist Gauguin, analysing the primitive tendency as ideology, as an artistic practice, and lastly...

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Main Authors: Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903
Corporate Authors: Museo delle culture Milan, Italy
Group Author: Friborg, Flemming; Menegoi, Simone; Messina, Maria Grazia; Pedersen, Line Clausen; Pis Marcos, Monserrat, 1983
Published: 24 ORE Cultura srl,
Publisher Address: Milan :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: Drawing upon a selection of over 80 masterpieces, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies explore the entire career (paintings, drawings, prints, wood-carvings, ceramics) of the restless French artist Gauguin, analysing the primitive tendency as ideology, as an artistic practice, and lastly as a heritage of vast importance for the development of painting through the entire 20th century.
Item Description: Exhibition held at the Museo delle Culture, Milan, Oct. 28, 2015 - Feb. 21, 2016.
Carrier Form: 189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 32 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9788866482796
886648279X
9788866482949
8866482943
Index Number: ND553
CLC: J156.509.4-28
Call Number: J156.509.4-28/G268
Contents: Radical Impressionism? :
Style and effects in the art of Paul Gauguin /
Feeding the purpose :
Gauguin's search for an artistic "primitivism" /
Gauguin's itineraries in 1889 from the Universal Exposition to the Louvre Museum through the pages of the Walter Album /
From "primitivism" to the "poetics of ethnography" :
Paradigm shifts in the relationship with the "primitive" :
three key exhibitions, 1984-2012 /