Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin
Prideaux, Sue2024
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"A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche. Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia. Prideaux conjures Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew"--Publisher's description.
Main title:
Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin / Sue Prideaux.
Author:
Prideaux, Sue, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xiv, 399 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
List of illustrationsPrefaceRevolution Road"I am a savage from Peru"OutsiderBecomingImpressionism and bourgeois blissLostEvolution of a dream"I 've never painted so clearly"Vincent. "My God, what a day!!"March of scienceThrow of the dicePoisoned paradiseTehamana"I hate nudity, the halfway"Pent up in ParisReturn to TaihitiReinventionsKokeBarefoot lawyerAcknowledgementsSelect BibliographyNotesPermission creditsIndex.
ISBN:
9780571365937 (hbk)9780571365937
Dewey class:
759.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
570566
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 759.4 GAU | Onloan - Due: 17 Jul 2025 |