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 world. Today he is recognized as a highly influential founding father of modern art, who emphasized the use of flat planes and bright, nonnaturalistic color in conjunction with symbolic or primitive subjects. Familiarity with Gauguin the writer is essential for a complete understanding of the artist. The Writings of a Savage collects the very best of his letters, articles, books, and...
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 Ta...
In his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Guerin addressed himself to younger people alienated from ideologies and isms shorn of any meaning by an earlier generation and particularly from socialism, which has so often been betrayed by those who claimed to speak in its name, and which now provokes an understandable scepticism. In this collection of essays, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published here for the first time in English, Guerin not only provides a critique of the socialist and communist parties of his day, he analyzes some of the...
In his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Guerin addressed himself to younger people alienated from ideologi...
