{"product_id":"9781801105231-gauguin-and-polynesia","title":"Thomas Nicholas - Gauguin And Polynesia - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent mythic imagery from Oceania for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour and his paintings have been considered exploitative. Gauguin and Polynesia offers a fresh view on the artist not from the perspective of European art history but from the contemporary vantage point of the region Oceania which he so famously moved to. Gauguin's art is revealed for the first time to be richer and more eclectic than has been recognised. The artist indeed did invent enigmatic and symbolic images but he also depicted Polynesia's colonial modernity acknowledging the life of the time and the dignity and power of some of the Islanders he encountered. Gauguin and Polynesia neither celebrates nor condemns an extraordinary painter who at times denounced and at other times affirmed the French empire that shaped his own life and the places he moved between. It is a revelation of a formative artist of modern life and of multicultural worlds in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Gauguin And Polynesia\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Thomas Nicholas\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781801105231\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 464 Pages, 100 Colour Images\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Art \u0026amp; Design Styles: C 1900 To C 1960","brand":"Thomas Nicholas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624322277681,"sku":"IN-G-9781801105231","price":39.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781801105231.jpg?v=1724943966","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781801105231-gauguin-and-polynesia","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}