Gauguin
Subtitle: artist as alchemist
By: edited by Gloria Groom ; with contributions by Gloria Groom, Dario Gamboni, Karriet K. Stratis, Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat, Claire Bernardi, Allison Perelman, Isabelle Cahn, Estelle Bégué, Nadège Horner, and Elsa Badie Modiri
Contributors: Art Institute of Chicago; Musée d'Orsay; Réunion des musées nationaux (France)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780300217018; 9780865592865
Subjects: Decorative arts; Workmanship; Exhibitions; Knowledge
Description: "Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats--clay, works on paper, wood, and paint, as well as furniture and decorative friezes--this volume delves into his enduring interest in craft and applied arts, reflecting on their significance to his creative process. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist draws on extensive new research into the artist's working methods, presenting him as a consummate craftsman--one whose transmutations of the ordinary yielded new and remarkable forms. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book includes essays by an international team of scholars who offer a rich analysis of Gauguin's oeuvre beyond painting. By embracing other art forms, which offered fewer dominant models to guide his work, Gauguin freed himself from the burden of artistic precedent. In turn, these groundbreaking creative forays, especially in ceramics, gave new direction to his paintings. The authors' insightful emphasis on craftsmanship deepens our understanding of Gauguin's considerable achievements as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, ceramist, and printmaker within the history of modern art"--
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 25--September 10, 2017 ; and Réunion des musées nationaux--Grand Palais, Paris, October 9, 2017--January 21, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English, with some selections translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Avant et après : "all this and all that" / Gloria Groom; title: Paul Gauguin's crucible of forms / Dario Gamboni; title: Disrupting convention : Gauguin's unique multiples and transfers / Harriet K. Stratis; title: The alchemist and the savage : truth and self-reflection in Gauguin's three-dimensional work / Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat; title: Iteration and invention in Gauguin's paintings / Claire Bernardi; title: "The burning yellow atelier" / Allison Perelman; title: Gauguin's visual universe / Elsa Badie Modiri ; Nadège Horner ; Allison Perelman; title: Catalogue. Becoming Gauguin ; The expanding workshop ; Gauguin's symbolist avatars ; Confronting the Maori ; Mythologizing the Maori ; Decorator of dreams; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Photography credits.