Noa Noa : Gauguin's Tahiti
Wadley, Nicholas1985
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Gauguin was no ordinary traveller and Noa Noa is no ordinary traveller's tale. Gauguin had left Europe in 1891 in search of an innocent island paradise, only to discover a Tahiti that was overrun by European civilization. Noa Noa was to be the means of explaining his first Tahitian paintings to the Parisian public when he returned in 1893 to France. Like those paintings, the book is not an accurate account or description of Tahiti; it is more like a tapestry in which fact, fiction, dream and myth are interwoven: rich in detail, immediate in style.
Main title:
Noa Noa : Gauguin's Tahiti / edited and introduced by Nicholas Wadley ; translated by Jonathan Griffin.
Author:
Wadley, Nicholas, editorGriffin, Jonathan, translator
Imprint:
Oxford : Phaidon Press Limited, 1985.
Collation:
160 pages : illustrations (black and white and colour), portraits ; 27 cm.
Notes:
Frontispiece : illustration 'Noa Noa (Fragrant), c. 1894 by Paul Gauguin.Includes bibliographical references (p.154)
Contents:
Partial contents: The history of Noa Noa -- the collaboration with Morice -- Maori mythology : Tehamana and Moerenhour -- The purpose of Noa Noa: the primitive and civilized.
ISBN:
0714823759
Dewey class:
759.4
Local class:
759.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
French paintingsGauguin, Paul Correspondence,diaries, etc.
BRN:
2534308
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