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Gauguin Tahiti
Title:
Gauguin Tahiti
Author:
Shackelford, George T. M., 1955-
Publication Information:
Boston, MA : MFA Pulications, [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
viii, 371 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
General Note:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin Tahiti, " organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."-- verso of t.p.

Exhibition held September 30 2003-January 19, 2004 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 29-June 20, 2004.

Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / George T. M. Shackelford -- I. The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893 -- The Paintings of the First Polynesian Sojourn / Claire Freches-Thory -- Gauguin: Artist and Ethnographyer / Philippe Peltier -- Sculpture of the First Voyage / Anne Pingeot -- II. The Return to France, August 1893-June 1895 -- The Exhibition at Durant-Ruel / Claire Frèches-Thory -- Noa Noa: The Voyage to Tahiti / Isabelle Cahn -- "Shapes and Harmonies of Another World" / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- Oviri / Anne Pingeot -- III. The Second Polynesian Sojourn, September 1895-May 1903 -- The Return to Paradise: Tahiti, 1895-1897 / George T. M. Shackelford -- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we goping? / George T. M. Shackelford -- "I have everything a modest artist could wish" / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- "Catholicism and the modern mind": The painter as writer in late career / Elizabeth C. Childs -- Splendor and misery: Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands / George T. M. Shackelford -- IV: After 1903 -- The House of Pleasure / Anne Pingeot -- Koké and Tépéva: Victor Segalen in Gauguin's Footsteps / Gilles Manceron -- Belated Recognition: Gauguin and France in the twentieth century, 1903-1949 / Isabelle Cahn -- V. Appendixes -- Gauguin in the Vollard Archives / Suzanne Diffre and Marie-Josèphe Lesieur -- Chronology of Gauguin's life, 1848-1903 / Isabelle Cahn and Gloria Groom.
ISBN:
9780878466665
Format :
Book