Gauguin
Subtitle: tales from paradise
By: texts by Flemming Friborg, Simone Menegoi, Maria Grazia Messina, Line Clausen Pedersen, Monserrat Pis Marcos
Contributors: Friborg, Flemming, author; Menegoi, Simone, author; Messina, Maria Grazia, author; Pedersen, Line Clausen, author; Marcos, Monserrat Pis, author; Museo delle culture (Milan, Italy)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: 24 ORE Cultura srl
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Milan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9788866482796; 9788866482949
Subjects: Exhibitions; Primitivism in art
Description: Drawing upon a selection of over 80 masterpieces, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies explore the entire career (paintings, drawings, prints, wood-carvings, ceramics) of the restless French artist Gauguin, analysing the primitive tendency as ideology, as an artistic practice, and lastly as a heritage of vast importance for the development of painting through the entire 20th century.
Notes: Exhibition held at the Museo delle Culture, Milan, Oct. 28, 2015 - Feb. 21, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Radical Impressionism? :; title: Style and effects in the art of Paul Gauguin  -- Flemming Friborg; title: Feeding the purpose :; title: Gauguin's search for an artistic "primitivism"  -- Line Clausen Pedersen; title: Gauguin's itineraries in 1889 from the Universal Exposition to the Louvre Museum through the pages of the Walter Album  -- Maria Grazia Messina; title: From "primitivism" to the "poetics of etnography" :; title: Paradigm shifts in the relationship with the "primitive" :; title: three key exhibitions, 1984-2012 -- Simone Menegoi-- Catalogue of the works.