Nicholas Thomas

Gauguin and Polynesia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A richly illustrated reassessment of one of the most controversial Post-Impressionist artists, Paul Gauguin, exploring his work in the context of the Polynesian islands where much of it was created.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781801105248
• ISBN-10: 1801105243
• Artikelnr.: 71913527

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Thomas first visited Polynesia in 1984 to undertake research in the Marquesas Islands. He has since travelled extensively across the Pacific, and written on Indigenous histories, empire and art; his books include Islanders: the Pacific in the age of empire (2012), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize. Oceania, which Thomas co-curated with Peter Brunt for the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris in 2018-19, was acclaimed as a landmark exhibition. Since 2006, he has been Professor of Historical Anthropology, Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives in London and in the Corbières, in the south of France.

Rezensionen

Imagine a book about Gauguin written by someone who truly knows, first hand, the Pacific islands, their history, their cultures. Imagine an author capable of looking at Gauguin's paintings not as illustrations of 'primitivism' or 'colonialism' but as attempts – failures, successes, improbabilities – to come to terms with another way of life. This is the book. There is no other like it.