The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections - Hardcover

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588390616 ISBN 13: 9781588390615

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002

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Review:

His story is famous: brash Parisian banker-turned-artist leaves family to paint vivid scenes of indigenous people in Tahiti. Yet Paul Gauguin has been overlooked by the art world in recent decades. The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections, which accompanies a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition (through October 20, 2002), remedies this omission with lively overviews of his travels and innovative working methods, and more than 200 reproductions of his paintings, drawings, prints, and wood carvings. Gauguin's fascination with "primitive" cultures and blocky, simplified figures began during sojourns to Brittany in the late 1880s. A visit to Martinique whetted his appetite for tropical settings, and in 1891 he set sail for the South Pacific. Numerous excerpts from Gauguin's self-aggrandizing letters and other writings reveal the intense pleasures he found far from home: "I muse on violent harmonies amid the intoxicating fragrances of nature." --Cathy Curtis

From the Publisher:

This elegant and informative book accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that runs from June 18 to October 20, 2002. It marks the first time in more than forty years that Gauguin has been the subject of a major show in New York City and the first time that the Metropolitan Museum has displayed its entire collection of the artist's work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1588390616
• ISBN 13: 9781588390615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Ives Colta Feller