Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin /
"Paul Gauguin's 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 ill...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2024.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Revolutionary Road
- 'I am a savage from Peru'
- The outsider
- Becoming
- Impressionism and bourgeois bliss
- Lost
- Evolution of a dream
- 'I've never painted so clearly'
- Vincent. "my God, what a day!!'
- The march of science
- A throw of the dice
- Poisoned paradise
- Tehamana
- 'I hate nullity, the halfway'
- Pent up in Paris
- Return to Tahiti
- Reinventions
- Koke
- The barefoot lawyer
- Acknowledgements
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Permissions credits
- Index.