GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF is the first publication to give equal weight to the full range of Gauguin's activities both as an artist and a writer. His letters, including many to fellow painters such as Pissarro and Van Gogh, comment freely on contemporaries such as Cezanne, Monet and Degas, and meet head on the changing aesthetic concerns of avant-garde Paris in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. They also chart his increasingly hazardous travels around the globe in pursuit of his elusive idea of the 'primitive' from Paris and Copenhagen to Brittany, Provence, Panama, the West Indies and finally the South Pacific. Illustrated with over 200 of his most powerful and decorative works of art, GAUGUIN BY HIMSELF offers a fresh look at the diverse faces and talents of a man who chose to live outside the bounds of society in order to fulfil his vocation as a 'great artist'.

Gauguin by Himself Handbook

Belinda Thomson

Arts & Photography

Little, Brown Book Group

The Enlightenment: French Architecture Unit 29 (Course A204)

BAYLEY, Stephen

Architecture

Open University Press

Impressionism

Bison

<p>In this survey and reappraisal of an era, many minor as well as major artists are discussed and illustrated. By concentrating on what the artists and contemporary critics did and said, and by looking at what the artists painted, the author raises very sharply the question of whether the term "Post-Impressionist" has any meaning. But what matters, of course, is not the label, but the ever-changing reality and the richness of individual achievement. This edition features 180 illustrations, including 80 in colour.</p>

The Post-Impressionists

Chartwell Books

During the 1890s and early 1900s Édouard Vuillard (1868 1940) produced a body of work that combines intimate subject matter with abstract form through the simplification of pictorial elements and observation of decorative fabrics and wallpapers. Through these devices Vuillard developed an art that is unashamedly decorative and yet always replete with subtle suggestions of deeper meanings. In balancing form and content, psychological drama and abstraction, his pictures are about as close to poetry as any artist's, and all the more brilliant for their understatement and the near imperceptibility of their craft. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, this book offers a fresh look at the early career of this much-loved artist.

Edouard Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday

CHRIS STEPHENS

Individual Artists

The Holburne Museum

Michael, Howard

Magna Books

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