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Listening Eye: Taking Notes after Gauguin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gamboni
- Series:
- dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Artists' writings.
- Artists.
- Art History.
- Artists' Writing.
- Genre:
- Tracts (Ephemera)
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- [Place of publication not identified], Hatje Cantz, 2012.
- Summary:
- "For the past six years, I have been retracing some of Paul Gauguin's steps. He led a famously peripatetic life, and I did not attempt to follow him systematically or in the order of his moves. More simply, I took advantage of lectures and conferences and organized vacations so as to see not only his works, as closely as possible, but also the places and things he had seen and sometimes represented. Since this exploration had to be performed over an extended period and in a sequence contingent on extraneous circumstances, it was important that I record it in ways that would allow me to use my observations later, to compare and to interpret them. I did this with the usual techniques of writing down notes and taking photographs but also by making drawings, generally mixed with the notes. Over the past century, the increasingly simple and cheap use of photography has tended to reduce or even eliminate the practice of drawing for art historians, and there is a real competition between the two techniques as regards the time and equipment they require, the type of relation to the model they offer, and the uses to which their products can be put..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description based on online resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 2026-05-11).
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