NEW, Unopened “Gauguin: Maker of Myth”, edited by Belinda Thompson

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NEW “Gauguin: Maker of Myth” in Shrinkwrap Mint Condition Tate National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art, London January 2010 Belinda Thompson

“Gauguin: Maker of Myth”
Editor: Belinda Thompson
New in Shrinkwrap, 255 pages,
More than 200 museum-quality reproductions of paintings, works on paper, ceramics, woodcarvings, and writings, including Gauguin’s illustrated letters and books.

Perfect addition to any artist or art collector’s library as a catalogue and/or artist reference book. Also perfect as an eye-catching coffee table book.
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Published by Tate Gallery Publishing / National Gallery of Art, London, January 2010
Language: Spanish.

Measurements (approximate): Quarto i.e. 10 wide x 11 1/2 x 1 inches

ISBN 13: 9781854379825 / ISBN: 9781854379825
ISBN 10: 1854379828

BACK COVER SUMMARY:
“This major reevaluation of Paul Gauguin presents the artist and his work in an entirely new light. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of Gauguin’s paintings and the strong, semiabstract quality of his woodcuts had a profound effect on the development of twentieth-century art; Here readers will discover why Gauguin was one of the most important artists behind European modernism — yet one who also challenged its very tenets. Because while modern art largely rejected narrative, for Gauguin it remained central.

‘Gauguin: Maker of Myth’ is the first book to fully examine his use of stories and myth to give powerful narrative tension to his paintings at a time when other painters through storytelling was dead. Gauguin’s life in French Polynesa is often portrayed as a quest for the other, with the artist as the romantic explorer encountering primative cultures for the first time. In fact, he was deeply immersed in world art and a great reader of Polynesian stories and myths. This book cuts through the mystique surrounding Gauguin — one the artist himself cultivated — to show how he self-mythologized, presenting himself to the world as a suffering, Christ-like figure.

Stunningly illustrated and unprecedented in scope, ‘Gauguin: Maker of Myth’ features more than 200 museum-quality reproductions of paintings, works on paper, ceramics, woodcarvings, and writings, including Gauguin’s beautifully illustrated letters and books.”