Gauguin's skirt : Stephen F. Eisenman.

Author(s): Eisenman, Stephen

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Main Title
Gauguin's skirt
Author(s)
Eisenman, Stephen
Publisher
London : Thames & Hudson, 1999.
Collation
232 p. : ill. (some col.)
24 cm.
Summary
Gauguin explored the complexities of the Tahitian world through the media of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpting. This work depicts Tahitians at labour and leisure and the Polynesian landscape, as Eisenman challenges interpretations of the political and sexual content of the artist's work.
ISBN
050028038X
Dewey Class
759.4
Contents
Exotic scenarios -- Sex in Tahiti -- Death in the Marquesas -- Primitivism and difference.
Language
English
Subject
Polynesia -- Social life and customs.
Gauguin, Paul, -- 1848-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Painting, French -- Polynesia.
BRN
6699

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