Gauguin

by Douglas W. Druick, Britt Salvesen, Peter Zegers

Book Overview

Gauguin is the fourth title to be published in the Art Institute of Chicago's Artists in Focus series, which features inexpensive, well-produced treatments of key figures in the history of Modern art.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810967391
• ISBN13: 9780810967397
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Lush, colorful artworks revolutionizing modern painting

Paul Gauguin was at the heart of the Post-Impressionist movement with his lush, colorful artworks revolutionizing modern painting a the turn of the 19th Century. Largely self-taught in a diversity of media including oil painting, printmaking, and ceramics, Gauguin came to his career as a Parisian artist relatively late in life, and went on to paint subjects drawn from where he would live ranging from Brittany and Martinique, to Tahiti, and the Marquesas islands. In Gauguin, art expert Britt Salvesen drew from research developed by Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, enhanced with 79 superbly presented illustrations of which 52 are in color and 27 are duotone. Gauguin is a very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history reading lists and reference collections in general, as well as being strongly commended to students of the life and work of Paul Gauguin in particular.