Depicts the experiences of the French artist while living on a Polynesian island and discusses the culture of the natives of the island.

The original version of a great classic of modern art, back in printGauguin's great diary from Tahiti almost never saw the light of day in its original form. Sent by the artist to his friend Charles Morice in Paris, the manuscript waspublished in 1901 with immediate success, under the names Paul Gauguin and Charles Morice. With Gauguin's permission, Morice had "edited" and enlarged it to make it more readable. It was to be40 years before Gauguin's original version came to light, and it is published here in a translation by Jonathan Griffin, together with a detailedafterword...

The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family and his homeland, in the last decade of the nineteenth century he sailed from France to the South Seas to seek a life -in ecstasy, in peace and for art.- During his years in Tahiti, Gauguin brought forth a wealth of astonishing paintings, culminating in this monumental meditation on what he called the -ever-present riddle- of human existence posed in the work's title. This compact introduction to Gauguin's masterpiece explores its relation to...

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. ON the eighth of June, during the night, after a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expectancy, we perceived strange fires, moving in zigzags on the sea. From the somber sky a black cone with jagged indentions became disengaged. We turned Morea and had Tahiti before us. Several hours later dawn...

Avant et apres est le recit de tous les exils de Paul Gauguin et de ses combats: Arles, la Bretagne, Panama, Papeete. Gauguin passe egalement en revue toutes les morales qui l'ont pousse a fuir l'Europe et a se tourner vers les iles Marquises: "Morale du cul," morale religieuse, morale patriotique, morale du soldat, du gendarme. Il evoque aussi son amitie avec Van Gogh, sa conception de l'art, ses degouts et ses enthousiasmes. Il s'agit la d'une autobiographie de l'auteur et de l'un de ses meilleurs textes."

Ce texte est essentiel pour comprendre l'influence du primitivisme sur l'art moderne. Il s'agit d'un recit de voyage, un temoignage de la vie de Gauguin pendant son premier sejour a Tahiti, et un commentaire de ses tableaux. Ce manuscrit connut une histoire mouvementee, de sa genese a sa publication. de retour en France, venant de Tahiti, le 3 aout 1893, Gauguin, vers la fin de l'annee, avait entrepris de rediger des souvenirs sur sa premiere aventure oceanienne."

-Das Leben ist ein Bruchteil einer Sekunde. Wie in so kurzer Zeit sich Ewigkeit bereiten?- Paul Gauguin war Postimpressionist und Wegbereiter des Expressionismus: Vom Leben gezeichnet verfasst der franzosische Maler im selbstgewahlten Exil Hiva Oa seine Lebenserinnerungen. Gespickt mit Anekdoten lasst er uns hier teilhaben an seinem Leben und seinen Ansichten uber Kunst und Literatur, die Liebe und den Geist. Er erzahlt von seiner Zusammenarbeit mit Vincent van Gogh, seiner Fahrt zur See, der Bretagne und der Sudsee.