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3) Paul Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century post-Impressionist painter known for his use of bright colors and his depiction of South Seas scenes.
5) Paul Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
[1974]
Description
A brief biography of this nineteenth-century French artist accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into folklore. Two months after Gauguin arrived in Arles,...
7) Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Interweaves biography with artistic analysis to providea complete understanding of Gauguin's character and work.
8) Paul Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at the life and times of the French painter, Paul Gauguin.
11) Paul Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist known for his paintings of the South Pacific.
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
In 1894, Paul Gauguin left Europe to spend two years in Tahiti, where he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings. But he also created another masterpiece that has languished in obscurity for nearly 100 years: a detailed, entertaining journal and the sensuous woodblock prints and sketches made to accompany it. In this exquisitely designed edition, Chronicle Books is proud to publish together for the first time the evocative text...
15) Gauguin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Discusses the style and technique of the French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.
17) Gauguin
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Presents a biography of one of the most important postimpressionists and discusses his famous paintings.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
It's 1891, Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti in order to rediscover his painting, far from the moral, political, and visual codes of civilized Europe. He goes deep into the jungle, managing solitude, poverty, and sickness. He meets Tehura, who will become his wife, and the theme of his greatest paintings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"At the heart of this book - an art story even more than a personal story - are two contending ways of using paint and canvas for spiritual ends, of putting God in pigment. Silverman uncovers the ethos of the sanctity of labor in the van Gogh family's Dutch Reformed Church, and discovers van Gogh as a weaver-painter and builder of craft tools, seeking to express divinity in the labor forms of paint as woven cloth, plowed earth, and crumbled brick....
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