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Gauguin´s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints

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Description for Gauguin´s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints Paperback. In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island's exotic native culture. This book addresses both the artist's representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on his artistic practice. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 136 pages, 6 black-&-white illustrations + 87 colour images. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 726.

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) traveled to Tahiti in an effort to live simply and to draw inspiration from what he saw as the island’s exotic native culture. Although the artist was disappointed by the rapidly westernizing community he encountered, his works from this period nonetheless celebrate the myth of an untainted Tahitian idyll, a myth he continued to perpetuate upon his return to Paris. He created a travel journal entitled Noa Noa (fragrant scent), a largely fictionalized account that recalled his immersion into the spiritual world of the South Seas. To illustrate his text, Gauguin turned for the first ... Read more

Gauguin's Paradise Remembered addresses both the artist’s representation of Tahiti in the woodcut medium and the impact these works had on his artistic practice. Through its combined sense of immediacy (in the apparent directness of the printing process) and distance (through the mechanical repetition of motifs), the woodcut offered Gauguin the ideal medium to depict a paradise whose real attraction lay in its remaining always unattainable. With two insightful essays, this book posits that Gauguin’s Noa Noa prints allowed him to convey his deeply Symbolist conception of his Tahitian experience while continuing his experiments with reproductive processes and other technical innovations that engaged him at the time.



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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
Princeton University Art Museum
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300149296
SKU
V9780300149296
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About Alastair Wright
Alastair Wright is University Lecturer in History of Art and a Tutorial Fellow at St. John’s College, University of Oxford.  Calvin Brown is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum.

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