Title:
Gauguin : maker of myth / edited by Belinda Thomson ; consultant editor, Tamar Garb ; with contributions by Philippe Dagen ... [et al.].
Author:
Thomson, Belinda.
Garb, Tamar.
Dagen, Philippe.
Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903.
Tate Modern (Gallery)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Call Number:
ND553 .G27 A4 2010
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010926718-b.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010926718-d.html
ISBN:
9780691148861
Physical Description:
255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, from Sept. 30, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2011, and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from Feb. 27 to Jun. 5, 2011.
Originally published: London: Tate Publishing, 2010.
Contents:
Paul Gauguin : navigating the myth / Gauguin and the opacity of the other : the case of Martinique / "Following the moon" : Gauguin's writing and the myth of the "primitive" / Gauguin's politics / The last orientalist : portrait of the artist as Mohican / Gauguin and Segalen : exoticism, myth and the "aesthetics of diversity" / Gauguin : a very British reception
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