Gauguin and Impressionism

Richard R. Brettell, Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2005
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-11003-6 (ISBN)

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Paul Gauguin was introduced into the Impressionist circle by Camille Pissarro and contributed major works to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. During these years he transformed himself from a banker-stockbroker to a professional artist and from a family man into a solitary searcher for artistic, moral, and spiritual truths. Yet this vital period of Gauguin's life has usually been dismissed as an awkward prelude to his brilliant career as an anti-Impressionist. This handsomely illustrated book reconsiders Gauguin's apprenticeship as an Impressionist and reassesses his contributions to the movement through the extraordinarily subtle and beautiful paintings, sculpture, and ceramic works he created during the years before 1887. Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark argue that Gauguin's Impressionist paintings compare in quality to those of Sisley, Morisot, or Cassatt and that as a sculptor he was second only to Degas. His sculptures and ceramics were even more searching and radical than his early paintings and are crucial to the understanding of his development.
Gauguin grappled with the thorniest issues debated by the French avant-garde, the authors contend, and no member of the Impressionist group created works as enigmatic or as wide-ranging, both artistically and emotionally. Exhibition schedule: Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen, August 25 - November 20, 2005. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, December 11, 2005 - March 26, 2006

Richard R. Brettell is Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas and the author of Pissarro and Pontoise, The Impressionist and the City, and Monet to Moore, all published by Yale University Press. Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark is director of the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2005
Zusatzinfo	125 b/w + 200 colour illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	230 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-300-11003-0 / 0300110030
ISBN-13	978-0-300-11003-6 / 9780300110036
Zustand	Neuware