Paul Gauguin
Un esotismo controverso
Author(s)
MESSINA, MARIA GRAZIA
Language
ItalianAbstract
Gauguin's exoticism, an inexhaustible source of mythical constructions, is subjected to a careful revision of the contemporary, complex interference between symbolist culture and the pressures of colonial policies. Different perspectives are adopted, from the analysis of the theme of the mask in self-portraits, to literary suggestions, to suggestions received from the Universal Exposition of 1889, up to a reinterpretation of the stays in Brittany and Oceania, intended to clarify the links between exoticism and nostalgia, in a definition of escaping into space as the substitute for a regression of time, in search of a dimension of the origins now precluded to modern people.
Keywords
Storia dell'arte; Pittura; Biografia; Paul GauguinISBN
9788864531106, 8884533732, 9788855188241Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Firenze, 2006Series
Studi e saggi,Classification
History of art
15th century, c 1400 to c 1499
16th century, c 1500 to c 1599
17th century, c 1600 to c 1699
18th century, c 1700 to c 1799
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899