Gauguin: Maker of Myth
London: Tate Publishing, 2010. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps, 255pp, 155 color and BW plates, 74 figures. VG, some light edge wear. Item #127382
Exhibition catalog; from the book--This beautifully illustrated book, covering the whole of Gauguin's career and accompanying a major touring exhibition, focuses on his use of narrative, both as inspiration and fuel for his work and as a tool to create a personal mythology around himself as an artist. Essays by leading international experts, drawing on the latest research, go beyond the romance of the Gauguin biography to present him as a key figure in European modernity and its embrace of worlds and artefacts it described as primitive or savage. As well as featuring many well-known oil paintings and drawings, the book examines Gauguin's woodcarvings and ceramics and explores his legacy as a writer.
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