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3) Paul Gauguin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st Harper trophy ed.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture, the disconnect between an artist's desire, to create and their obligations to their loved ones and society. Praised for its multifaceted portrayal of tortured genius and wasted talent, The Moon and Sixpence explores the distance between expectation and desire in a man whose decisions, however, hastily made,...
6) Paul Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
47 pages 20 color slides ((film) in pockets).
Language
English
9) Gauguin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries are gorgeously reproduced, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seurat, and Pisarro. Each piece is given a brief overview establishing its place in the Impressionist pantheon as well as in its artist's oeuvre. An introductory text explains the Impressionistic style, tracing the movement's development, while an...
Publisher
Los Angeles County Museum of Art/DelMonico Books:Prestel
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
295 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"This groundbreaking examination of the cultural exchange between early 20th century French and German artists illuminates new ways of understanding the development of Expressionism."--publisher.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially...
15) Van Gogh
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always...
Author
Publisher
National Gallery Company in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life.
19) Castle of water
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two very different people, one very small island. For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, co-founded with her brilliant new husband, Sophie had much to look forward to--including a visit to the island home of her favorite singer, Jacques Brel. For Barry Bleecker, the same trip was meant to mark a new beginning. Turning away from his dreary...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
157 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and anecdotal information about each artist is provided alongside...
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