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Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Gauguin, Paul
Brooks, Van Wyck
Gauguin, Émile

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Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1908970456
ISBN13: 9781908970459
Publisher: Art / Books
Published: Jun 18 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.10
Language: English

The journals reveal his sincere desire to advocate for the same exotic primitives he simultaneously admired and grossly fetishized. -Lee Ann Norman, Brooklyn Rail

Unappreciated in his own lifetime, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is now recognized as one of the giants of French postimpressionism and a pioneer of early modernism. A rebel in both art and life, he rejected his bourgeois upbringing and comfortable stockbroker's job to devote his life to painting. Eventually, dismayed by the hypocrisy of civilization and in search of a primitive idyll, he left Paris and took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. He would never return to Europe. In the final months of his life, he wrote this witty, revealing autobiographical memoir with the request that it be published upon his death. It first appeared in the original French in 1918, and was translated into English three years later. As his son Émile wrote in the preface, These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality.... They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.

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