The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections - Softcover
The text includes a consideration of Gauguin's exotic voyages and their reflections in his art; a history of the reception and appreciation of Gauguin's work on this shore of the Atlantic; and revelations arising from the recent examination of paintings in the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Each of Gauguin's works from these New York collections appears in colour with accompanying commentary.
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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
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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.
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- PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1588390624
- ISBN 13 9781588390622
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages246
- EditorIves Colta Feller
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