Bøger af Paul Gauguin

One of the great classics of modern art: Gauguin's own account of his time in Tahiti, in its original version

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. ON the eighth of June, during the night, after a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expectancy, we perceived strange fires, moving in zigzags on the sea. From the somber sky a black cone with jagged indentions became disengaged. We turned Morea and had Tahiti before us. Several hours later dawn appeared, and we gently approached the reefs, entered the channel, and anchored without accidents in the roadstead. The first view of this part of the island discloses nothing very extraordinary; nothing, for instance, that could be compared with the magnificent bay of Rio de Janeiro. It is the summit of a mountain submerged at the time of one of the ancient deluges. Only the very point rose above the waters. A family fled thither and founded a new race--and then the corals climbed up along it, surrounding the peak, and in the course of centuries builded a new land. It is still extending, but retains its original character of solitude and isolation, which is only accentuated by the immense expanse of the ocean. Toward ten o'clock I made my formal call on the governor, the Negro Lacascade, who received me as though I had been an important personage. I owed this distinction to the mission with which the French government--I do not know why--had entrusted me. It was an artistic mission, it is true. But in the view of the Negro, however, this word was only an official synonym for espionage, and I tried in vain to undeceive him. Every one about him shared this belief, and when I said that I was receiving no pay for my mission no one would believe me. Life at Papeete soon became a burden. It was Europe--the Europe which I had thought to shake off--and that under the aggravating circumstances of colonial snobbism, and the imitation, grotesque even to the point of caricature, of our customs, fashions, vices, and absurdities of civilization. Was I to have made this far journey, only to find the very thing which I had fled? Nevertheless, there was a public event which interested me. At the time King Pomare was mortally ill, and the end was daily expected. Little by little the city had assumed a singular aspect.

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Paul Gauguin�������s Intimate Journals is a collection of personal writings by the famous French artist, Paul Gauguin. The book contains a series of diary entries and letters that Gauguin wrote during his travels in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands in the late 19th century. The journals provide a fascinating insight into Gauguin�������s life, his artistic process, and his thoughts on culture, religion, and society. The book also includes reproductions of some of Gauguin�������s most famous paintings, as well as photographs of the artist and his surroundings. Overall, Paul Gauguin�������s Intimate Journals is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of this influential artist.This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Ceci n'est pas un livre. Un livre, même un mauvais livre, c'est une grave affaire. Telle phrase du quatrième chapitre excellente serait mauvaise au deuxième, et tout le monde n'est pas du métier. Un roman. Où cela commence-t-il: où cela finit-il. Le spirituel Camille Mauclair en donne la forme définitive: c'est entendu jusqu'à ce qu'un nouveau Mauclair vienne à son heure nous annoncer une forme nouvelle.

Ce texte est essentiel pour comprendre l'influence du primitivisme sur l'art moderne. Il s'agit d'un récit de voyage, un témoignage de la vie de Gauguin pendant son premier séjour à Tahiti, et un commentaire de ses tableaux. Ce manuscrit connut une histoire mouvementée, de sa genèse à sa publication. de retour en France, venant de Tahiti, le 3 août 1893, Gau-guin, vers la fin de l'année, avait entrepris de rédiger des sou-venirs sur sa première aventure océanienne.

" PAUL GAUGUIN, né à Paris le 7 juin 1848... ¿ je ne m¿attarde pas à exposer ses origines; tout homme exceptionnel étant destiné à décevoir ses parents plus qüà les prolonger. Et lui-même nous instruit:«Si je vous dis que, par les femmes, je descends d¿un Borgia d¿Aragon, vice-roi du Pérou, vous répondrez que ce n¿est pas vrai, et que je suis prétentieux. Mais si je vous dis que ma famille est une famille de vidangeurs, vous me mépriserez.»En vérité, son père fut un journaliste; et sa grand mère maternelle, une femme de lettres, Flora Tristan, dont les ¿uvres ni les croyances, saint-simoniennes, n¿atteignent à l¿intérêt de la vie conjugale. Mal mariée, son conjoint l¿aimait cependant d¿une telle rancune, qüaprès trois ans d¿accord et dix-huit années de séparation, il lui infligea la preuve la plus fatale dont un jaloux puisse faire hommage à sa femme, et tenta de la tuer. Elle continua de vivre et d¿écrire des romans sentimentaux dans le goût de son école, comme «Memphis, ou le Prolétaire», sans pitié de ses lecteurs ni de son mari, soumis aux travaux forcés pour vingt ans."

Noa Noa, wurde als ein Hauptwerk in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte anerkannt, und wir haben Vorkehrungen getroffen, um seine Bewahrung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in moderner Weise für gegenwärtige und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses Buch wurde komplett neu abgetippt, überarbeitet und neu formatiert. Der Text ist lesbar und klar, da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien erstellt werden.

Lettres de Paul Gauguin à Georges-Daniel de Monfreid est une correspondance épistolaire entre les deux artistes. Gauguin part pour Tahiti et lui demande d'être son correspondant, lui donnant une procuration pour gérer ses affaires en France. À partir de 1891, chaque bateau partant ou revenant de Polynésie transporte des lettres des deux amis. Dans ces lettres11, ils échangent leurs récriminations sur les acheteurs qui n'achètent pas et la misère qui s'ensuit. Ils s'épanchent aussi sur leurs situations personnelles et intimes, Gauguin donnant à Monfreid des conseils de morale que lui-même était loin de suivre. Gauguin illustre aussi ses lettres de croquis de tableaux, comme il le fait pour Te Arii Vahine (1896) ou pour le triptyque D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ? (1898). George Daniel fait ce qu'il peut pour vendre les tableaux de son ami, mais peine.

Fascine par le peuple tahitien, Gauguin restera trois annees en Polynesie. Il s'inspirera de son sejour pour creer Noa Noa qui signifie parfume A travers la peinture et l'ecriture, avec l'aide du poete Charles Morice, il exprime ses impressions face a la culture tahitienne dont la sensualite le fascine, libere son art de l'heritage de la culture occidentale, et relate sa decouverte de la Polynesie et de la civilisation maorie.Veritable experience immersive, ce chef-d'A uvre unique en son genre, dont la version originale est conservee dans les collections du musee d'Orsay, constitue un incontournable pour qui veut comprendre l'art de Gauguin.-

A beautiful facsimile of the earliest English translation of Gauguin's frank and entertaining memoir, written just before he died, in which he reveals his most inner thoughts on art, life and love Unappreciated in his own lifetime, Paul Gauguin is now recognized as one of the giants of French post-Impressionism and a pioneer of early modernism. A rebel in both art and life, he rejected his bourgeois upbringing and comfortable stockbroker's job to devote his life to painting. Eventually, dismayed by the 'hypocrisy of civilization' and in search of a primitive idyll, he left his wife and children behind in Paris and took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. He would never return to Europe. In the final months of his life, he wrote this witty and revealing autobiographical memoir with the request that it be published upon his death. It first appeared in the original French in 1918, and was translated into English three years later. As his son Émile wrote in the preface, 'These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality.... They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humour, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.' Wide-ranging and elliptical, these candid reflections reveal Gauguin's inner thoughts about many subjects, including frank views on his fellow artists back in Paris, his turbulent relationship with Van Gogh, and the charms of Polynesian women, while providing glimpses into his often far-from-idyllic life in the islands. This beautiful facsimile reproduces the first American translation of the journals, a rare limited edition privately published in New York in 1921 for a select group of subscribers. With full-page sketches by the artist, these entertaining and enlightening musings give us a unique insight into Gauguin the man and the artist.

"Criticism is our censorship . . ." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote "Racontars de rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his contemporaries and predecessors, Gauguin unpacks what he viewed as the mistakes and misjudgments behind much of art criticism, revealing not only how wrong critics' interpretations have been, but also what it would mean to approach art properly-to really look.Long out of print, this new translation by Donatien Grau includes an introduction that situates the essay within Gauguin's written oeuvre, as well as explanatory notes. This text sheds light on Gauguin's conception of art-widely considered a predecessor to Duchamp-and engages with many issues still relevant today: history, novelty, criticism, and the market. His voice feels as fresh, lively, sharp in English now as it did in French over one hundred years ago. Through Gauguin's final piece of writing, we see the artist in the full throes of passion-for his work, for his art, for the art of others, and against anyone who would stand in his way. As the inaugural publication in David Zwirner Books's new ekphrasis reader series, Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter sets a perfect tone for the books to come. Poised between writing, art, and criticism, Gauguin brings together many different worlds, all of which should have a seat at the table during any meaningful discussion of art. With the express hope of encouraging open exchange between the world of writing and that of the visual arts, David Zwirner Books is proud to present this new edition of a lost masterpiece.

"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"