Paul Gauguin

Ce texte est essentiel pour comprendre l'influence du primitivisme sur l'art moderne. Il s'agit d'un r cit de voyage, un t moignage de la vie de Gauguin pendant son premier s jour Tahiti, et un commentaire de ses tableaux. Ce manuscrit connut une histoire mouvement e, de sa gen se sa publication. de retour en France, venant de Tahiti, le 3 ao t 1893, Gau-guin, vers la fin de l'ann e, avait entrepris de r diger des sou-venirs sur sa premi re aventure oc anienne.

Avant et apr s est le r cit de tous les exils de Paul Gauguin et de ses combats: Arles, la Bretagne, Panama, Papeete. Gauguin passe galement en revue toutes les morales qui l'ont pouss fuir l'Europe et se tourner vers les les Marquises: "Morale du cul", morale religieuse, morale patriotique, morale du soldat, du gendarme. Il voque aussi son amiti avec Van Gogh, sa conception de l'art, ses d go ts et ses enthousiasmes. Il s'agit l d'une autobiographie de l'auteur et de l'un de ses meilleurs textes.

Paul Gauguin�������s Intimate Journals is a collection of personal writings by the famous French artist, Paul Gauguin. The book contains a series of diary entries and letters that Gauguin wrote during his travels in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands in the late 19th century. The journals provide a fascinating insight into Gauguin�������s life, his artistic process, and his thoughts on culture, religion, and society. The book also includes reproductions of some of Gauguin�������s most famous paintings, as well as photographs of the artist and his surroundings. Overall, Paul Gauguin�������s Intimate Journals is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of this influential artist.This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

"These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality....They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham." -- Emil Gauguin, the artist's son, in the Preface.One of the great innovative figures in modern art, Gauguin was a complex, driven individual who, in 1883, gave up his job as a stockbroker in order to be free to paint every day. As time passed, he determined to sacrifice everything for his artistic vocation. Finally, in pursuit of a place to paint "natural men and women living lives unstained by the sham and hypocrisy of civilization, he took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands.Completed during the artist's final sojourn in the Marquesas, these revealing journals -- reprinted from rare limited edition -- throw much light on the painter's inner life and his thoughts about a great many topics. We learn of Gauguin's first stay in Paris in 1876, and his initial encounter with Impressionism, his tumultuous relationship with van Gogh when they lived and painted together in Arles, his pithy evaluations of Degas, Cezanne, Manet, and other artists; his opinion of art dealers and critics (poor), and much more. Also here are illuminating glimpses of Gauguin's life in the islands: his delight in the simple, carefree lives of the natives and the physical charms of Polynesian women, counterbalanced by his struggles with poverty, hatred of the missionaries, and despair over the failures of French colonial justice.Witty, wide-ranging, and aphoristic, these writings are not only entertaining in themselves, they are crucial for anyone seeking to understand Gauguin and his work. The text is enhanced with 27 full-page illustrations by Gauguin.

Gauguin's great diary from Tahiti almost never saw the light of day in its original form. The manuscript was sent by the artist from his island refuge to his friend Charles Morice in Paris, and published in 1901 with immediate success, under the two names of Paul Gauguin and Charles Morice. Morice, with Gauguin's permission, had 'edited' and enlarged it to make it more readable. How much of the charm and crispness of the manuscript had been lost in the process was anyone's guess. It was to be 40 years before Gauguin's original version came to light, and it is published here in a translation by the poet Jonathan Griffin, together with a detailed description by the art historian Jean Loize, who re-discovered the manuscript. Loize shows that Morice had in parts altered Gauguin's text beyond recognition - a startling discovery that entirely changed ideas about Gauguin's style and intentions. This genuine version of Noa Noa is not only an important document, it is also a beautiful piece of writing: amusing, acid, wide-eyed, moving. Gauguin feared that, unedited, it would seem absurdly crude; and no doubt it would have, to most readers in his day. Today we can appreciate its sketch form, jerky directness, authentic freshness. This edition is illustrated with the watercolours, wood-engravings and drawings that Gauguin assembled for the book.

Paul Gauguin: Noa Noa. Målaren Paul Gauguins synnerligen originella bok om sitt liv som "vilde" på Tahiti, om hur han bor i bambuhydda bland infödingarna och gör konst och natur till ett. Aningslöst skroderar han om hur han tar sig en 13-årig tahitisk flicka som sin vahine, som sin brud och älskarinna. Det väckte anstöt redan när boken publicerades 1901 och sticker lika mycket i ögonen idag. Även om boken i första hand är en rak berättelse finns en hel del underliga påståenden, som t ex en saklig utläggning om att maoriska kvinnor vill bli tagna med våld. Boken är i sanning naiv, och det framstår som en styrka, den är skriven av en bångstyrig bohem som inte har anledning att uttrycka sig salongsfähigt, som struntar i att hyfsa sitt språk och mildra sina påståenden, som skriver helt ocensurerat. Boken är full av gyllene episoder, om hur Gauguin blir vän med tahitierna, deltar fiskafänge, hugger rosenträ i djungeln, älskar, äter, målar, lyssnar till tahitiska skapelsemyter under stjärnklar natthimmel, lär sig bemöta attackerna från mörkrets andar som hemsöker hyddan om natten. Gauguin skrev Noa Noa i två versioner. Den första skrev han under sin första resa till Tahiti 1891-93. Han tog med sig manuskriptet när han återvände till Paris och lämnade det ifrån sig för att få det utgivet (och denna version utkom 1901). Men innan han åkte iväg på nytt gjorde han en avskrift som han tog med sig på sin nya resa, till Tahiti och Marquesas 1895-1903. Under dessa år bearbetade han boken, främst genom att lägga in bilder, akvareller, träsnitt, fotografier. 1903 dog han på Marquesas, 55 år gammal, i komplikationerna av den syfilis som han skaffade sig under åren som sjöman i ungdomen. I hans efterlämnade papper hittades den bearbetade och illustrerade versionen av Noa Noa. Bakhålls utgåva grundar sig på Gauguins andra och definitiva version av Noa Noa, hans bearbetade text, här i Karin Alins svenska översättning, och hans fantastiska illustrationer, med flödande varma färger och med den världsberömda gauguinska geniala förmågan att förmedla den tahitiska känslan.

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 colour 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 journals, many of which are unavailable elsewhere. In brilliantly lucid discussions of life and art Gauguin paints a triumphant self-portrait of a volcanic artist and the tormented man within.