Wild Thing (eBook)

A Life of Paul Gauguin

Sue Prideaux (Autor)

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2025
416 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
9781324020431 (ISBN)

Infos

One of The New York Times Best Books of the Year So FarOne of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025One of Five Books Best Nonfiction Books of 2024Shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeShortlisted for the 2025 American Library in Paris Book AwardAn original and revealing portrait of the misunderstood French Post-Impressionist artist.Paul Gauguins legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this gorgeously illustrated, myth-busting work, Sue Prideaux reveals that while Gauguin was a complicated man, his scandalous reputation is largely undeserved.Self-taught, Gauguin became a towering artist in his brief life, not just in painting but in ceramics and graphics. He fled the bustle of Paris for the beauty of Tahiti, where he lived simply and worked consistently to expose the tragic results of French Colonialism. Gauguin fought for the rights of Indigenous people, exposing French injustices and corruption in the local newspaper and acting as advocate for the Tahitian people in the French colonial courts. His unconventional career and bold, breathtaking art influenced not only Vincent van Gogh, but Matisse and Picasso.Wild Thing upends much of what we thought we knew about Gauguin through new primary research, including the resurfaced manuscript of Gauguins most important writing, the untranslated memoir of Gauguins son, and a sample of Gauguins teeth that disproves the pernicious myth of his syphilis. In the first full biography of Paul Gauguin in thirty years, Sue Prideaux illuminates the extraordinary oeuvre of a visionary artist vital to the French avant-garde. The result is a brilliantly readable and compassionate study of Gauguinnot just as a painter, sculptor, carver and potter, but as a human soul perpetually searching for what is always just out of reach (Artemis Cooper, Spectator).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 70 color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Artist Biography • French Art • French artists • French avant-garde • French Polynesia • Matisse • painter biography • Picasso • Post-Impressionism • Primitivism • sculptor • Synthetism • Van Gogh • visual artist
• ISBN-13: 9781324020431 / 9781324020431