Gauguin Tahiti
The Studio of the South Seas
George T. M. Shackelford
Claire Frèches-Thory
With essays by Isabelle Cahn
Elizabeth C. Childs
Gilles Manceron
Philippe Peltier
Anne Pingeot
Barbara Stern Shapiro
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| ‘… testifies to the richness and strangeness of Gauguin’s best work’ | | – The Daily Telegraph |
| ‘Gorgeous … reads as well as it looks’ | | – Artists & Illustrators |
| ‘A prodigiously detailed survey ... more than a mere record of a beguiling and wholly convincing exhibition of Gauguin’s tumultuous last decade’ | – The Times
Higher Education Supplement |
Gauguin remains one of the most enigmatic and attractive figures of nineteenth-century art, the very pivot of modernism;
Gauguin Tahiti portrays this crucial period of his life in all its
colour and drama.
At the centre of it all is Gauguin’s masterpiece, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, the crowning glory of his career, presented with unprecedented depth and authority and including an impressive fold-out reproduction.
Over 250 colour illustrations, documentary photographs and essays by leading critics illuminate every aspect of Gauguin’s art, from the legendary canvases to his sculptures, ceramics and innovative graphic works.
Here too are discussions of the Polynesian society, culture and religion that helped shape the art; an in-depth narrative of the artist’s life, with its many epiphanies, frustrations and discoveries; and a chronicle of the changing fortunes of his reputation in the century since his death.
George T. M. Shackelford has written or contributed to numerous books, including Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits, also published by Thames & Hudson. Among Claire Frèches-Thory's previous books are Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces at the Musée d’Orsay and The Nabis, both published by Thames & Hudson.
Also of interest:
Van Gogh and Gauguin: Studio of the South
From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso:
Toward Modern Art
Gauguin in the |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500093229 | | ISBN-13 978-0500093221 | | | | 27.9 x 24.0 cm | | Hardback including 2 foldouts | | 380pp | | 341 illustrations, 261 in colour | | First published 2004 | | | | £39.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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