Gauguin : His life and works / Anna Maria Damigella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damigella, Anna Maria.

Contributor:

Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903

Courage Books (Firm), publisher.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903--Catalogs.

Gauguin, Paul.

Artists--France--Biography.

Artists.

Painting, French--19th century.

Painting, French.

Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903.

Gauguin, Paul 1848-1903--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Painting--Technique.

Local Subjects:

Gauguin, Paul 1848-1903--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Painting--Technique.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

271, [1] pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 35 cm

Distribution:

Philadelphia : Imprint of Running Press,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : [Published by] Courage Books, 1998.

Contents:

Preface

From Nature to Thought. The Beginnings; The Impressionist Period; The First Journeys and the First Ceramic Works; Abstraction, Synthetism, Symbolism; Primitivism, Exoticism and Literary Symbolism; The First Sojourn in Tahiti; The Return to France; The Last Period

The Works. Biography; The Impressionist Works; Gauguin's Quest for a Personal Style; The Discovery of Synthetism; The Symbolist Period; The First Tahitian Experience; Religious Inspiration and Tahitian Symbolism; Seeking Recognition in France; The Return to Tahiti and the Symbolism of Color; The Marquesan Still Lifes, Woodcuts, Monotypes and Paintings.

Notes:

Originally published: 1998 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan."--Title page verso.

"First published in the United States in 1998 by Courage Books"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 268) and index.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.

Running Press copies are "1" printing.

ISBN:

0762403330

9780762403332

OCLC:

40226711