Title:
The symbolism of Paul Gauguin : erotica, exotica, and the great dilemmas of humanity / Henri Dorra ; foreword by Richard R. Brettell ; afterword by Gabriel P. Weisberg.
Author:
Dorra, Henri, 1924-2002.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Call Number:
N6853.G34 D67 2007
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030513.html
ISBN:
9780520241305
Physical Description:
xvii, 361 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents:
Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.
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